NATALIYA ILCHUK
EUROTÉLÉPORT
26.01 - 01.02.2026
The Film Gallery is pleased to host Eurotéléport, an exhibition by Ukrainian artist and filmmaker Nataliya Ilchuk (b. 1985, Lviv) bringing together film projects, a series of photographies, and selected materials from her personal archive, addressing questions of migration.
Eurotéléport speaks of Ukrainian economic migration to Europe and brings together a series of films and videos produced by artist and filmmaker Nataliya Ilchuk (b. 1985, Lviv) over the last three years. These works focus on the themes of the contributory economy as opposed to the technological entropy of automation, particularly in the arts sector.
The exhibition explores the idea that migrant individuals, who, by virtue of their thanatological character, may in fact be the most alive and the most free, according to the theories of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989). Consequently, following the logic of freedom expressed through mobility, the question of collective identity disappears as soon as individual mobility begins.
After the collapse of the USSR, no Ukrainian collective identity emerged to replace the Soviet one. No conditions were created for a shared sense of belonging to a common cultural and historical heritage, and individual identity could only manifest itself for those who could feel freedom of self-fulfilment, freedom of expression and freedom of movement.
The main categories thus became underground artists and migrant workers, individuals who could only rely on themselves, who did not form trade unions, and who did not even maintain close contact with each other, unlike the early 20th century, when the diaspora of the first waves of migration left Ukraine in families, or the post-2022 migration of women with children fleeing the war. Ukrainian migration in the 1990s and 2000s was almost entirely solitary, and Eurotéléport reflects of this alienation and isolation passed down from one generation to the next.
Public Programme
Monday, January 26
6pm Vernissage / 7pm Guided tour by Nataliya Ilchuk
Tuesday, January 27
7pm Screening of five films by Nataliya Ilchuk, followed by a discussion between the artist and film critic and programmer Marie-Pauline Mollaret
Maternité (17’, France, 2019)
kitchen.blend (15’, France, 2020)
Sensitive Material (26’, Ukraine, 2021)
The Seventh Shift (15’, Ukraine, 2023)
signs (2’, Ukraine, 2020)
Thursday, January 29
7pm ‘Migration from the West to the West’ - Talk by Nataliya Ilchuk, with a screening of excerpts from two Ukrainian films on migration from Western Ukraine to Canada
The Stone Cross (1968, Léonide Ossyka)
Such Late, Such Warm Autumn (1981, Ivan Mykolaïtchouk)
Saturday, January 31
7pm Punk Melancholy Finissage
A screening of music videos by Ukrainian underground bands from 1980-2000s, including Vika Vradiy, Godo, Braty Gadiukiny, Mertvy Piven, Tea Fan Club.
This exhibition was conceived by Nataliya Ilchuk, with the support of École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy.
