Rusyns
(curated by Lucia Nimcova)
This project documents
the past and present situation of people inhabiting the territory
of Starina water dam (on Cirocha river in the east of Slovakia). Lucia
Nimcová, Dana Kaprálová, Lucia Danková,
Silvia Hulajová, Ivana Lempelová, Jarek Basoš,
Jozef Fundák, Števo Koco, Roman Babjak. The Rusyns (also
called Ruthenians or Carpathian Rusins) are an ethinc group of the
descendants of Rusyns, speaking the Rusyn language, who declined to
adopt Ukrainian national identity in the 19th and 20th century. Most
of them live outside the territory of Ukraine.
The majority of Ruthenian towns were situated in the north-east, close
to the Polish-Ukrainian border, but inhabitants of seven of them were
evacuatd due to the construction of water dam on the Cirocha river.
(The village of Starina was flooded and people were also evacuated
from the village of Zvala).
The project consists of photographs, archived pictures and video material.
Lucia Nimcova was born in 1977 in Humenné, Slovakia. She graduated
from the Institute of Creative Photography of the Silesian University
in Opawa, the Czech Republic in 2003.
Awards, scholarships and nominations:
2007 Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten / the Ministry of Education,
the Netherlands
2006 Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapur
2004 Mio Photo Awards - Kasahara Michiko Prize, Osaka, Japonia
2004 Joop Swart Masterclass, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2004 Kulturkontakt, Vien, Austria - Artist In Residence
www.luco.sk
