«Immersion in memories and hope for the best»: actress Dasha Trehubova shares her impressions of the VOICES exhibition of the Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

The VOICES exhibition opened the multimedia space of the Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, which has collected more than 100,000 stories of Ukrainians about the war. Recently, the VOICES exhibition was visited by Dasha Trehubova, a well-known Ukrainian actress, presenter, producer, and author of the #DashaReads video project. 

«You're plunging back into something that you thought you had already experienced, reflected on, and perhaps left behind. Every trauma that has happened in your life does not pass without a trace - and you realise this when you come here. Of course, the exhibition is not only about trauma. It is about memories. It is always about hope. Literally everything you see somehow gives you a hint that there is hope, that there is something good and that it will happen»,  Dasha shares her impressions.

The actress admits that her first emotions at the exhibition were those she experienced at the beginning of the Great War: rage, despair, indignation, the desire to do something very actively and to run somewhere at the same time. The exhibition creates the effect of presence.
«The exhibition is immersive, multimedia, so you just plunge into your own and other people's memories for a while. It's really powerful, but you have to be prepared for it», — Dasha shares her impressions.

Andriy Palatnyi, the exhibition's line producer and GOGOLFEST's theatre curator, spoke about the deep meaning of the exhibition's art objects using the example of a soft toy belonging to a real child. 

«When we start to look at it, we see a hole in the toy, a seam that the child tore with his own hands while sitting in the bomb shelter. This is a strong seam... And looking into the eyes of this toy, we can catch and see the emotions of this child. This is an example when an ordinary, everyday object acquires a certain symbolism», - said Andriy.

The exhibition is based on true stories of living witnesses of the war, collected by the Museum of Civilian Voices. You can find them at civilvoicesmuseum.org. Tell your story about the war on the Museum's portal or on the Foundation's free hotline 0 (800) 509 001.