In the Zone of Oblivion – The Chornobyl Archive

Maxim Dondyuk‘s new exhibition In the Zone of Oblivion – The Chornobyl Archive opened on April 1 at the Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Mano House. The exhibition draws on his long-term project in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, bringing together photographs, films, letters and other archival materials recovered from abandoned homes to reconstruct fragments of lives interrupted by the 1986 disaster.

“It is the spring of 2026. Forty years have passed since the explosion of Block 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, which irrevocably altered the course of history and forever changed our trust in technology. Four decades is enough time for an event to become a memory, then history, and finally a myth.”

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