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• The Guardian
• Fri May 30 2025

The Theatre of War by Stanislava Pinchuk Pinchuk is a multidisciplinary artist who initiates her works through a phase of extensive research, data collection and fieldwork. Primarily, Pinchuk works with conflict topographies, in dialogue with literary legacies and the politics of translation. In The Theatre of War, the opening lines of Homer?s epic war poem The Iliad are recited in three ?theatres of war?: a performance stage from the siege of Sarajevo, a combat training camp for Ukrainian soldiers, and the tomb of Homer in Greece. Just as The Iliad commences in the ninth year of the Trojan war, Pinchuk?s film was shot in response to the ninth year of Russia?s invasion of Ukraine.

Photograph: Saul Steed