No Innocent Landscape

by Lesia Topolnyk ; textediting by Arjen Oosterman and Billy Nolan

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Author(s)

Lesia Topolnyk

Editor(s)

Arjen Oosterman, Billy Nolan

Publication

s.l. [Rotterdam?] : s.n. [Nai?], 2022

Scope

[44] Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

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Lesia Topolnyk was 24 years old and had only just moved to the Netherlands when the MH17 was hit by a surface-to-air missile and crashed near the eastern Ukrainian village of Hrabove, the landscape she had until recently called her home. In her project 'No Innocent Landscape', presented at the NAi Rotterdam, and with which she won the Prix de Rome Architecture in 2022, Topolnyk links that disaster to illegal mining activities that had taken place under the ground on which the plane landed, to the personal stories of the passengers, of whom no one had the crash, and the ongoing war in her native country.

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Person as subject

Lesia Topolnyk, Dorothée Meddens

Keywords

architecture , architects , war

Geographical location

Ukraine

Location

Cabinet 29 - 1: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties