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Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka

Text by Ioana Pelehatăi.

Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka

Heartfelt documentation of a traditional Ukrainian ritual heralding the arrival of spring: a startlingly personal project from the photographer and film director known for her work with the Smashing Pumpkins

This is the sixth photobook by Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk (born 1970). Born in Kyiv but based in the United States, Yemchuk makes images that teeter on the threshold between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York; between fiction and reality; between the grand beauty of 1960s cinema and the social and built environments of post-Soviet realms. Through Yemchuk’s gaze, spaces blur to create dreamscapes and metamorphoses. As with all of her work, Malanka is a personal, feminine, surrealist and magical project. The eponymous tradition is a pre-Christian folklore ritual driving out winter and welcoming spring, an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology. It is celebrated on January 14, the old New Year in the Julian calendar, by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. In 2019 and 2020, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (Krasnoilsk in Ukrainian) to document the night-long festival. The book includes a poetic essay by Romanian cultural journalist Ioana Pelehat?i.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Beatrice Zamponi

Yemchuk’s practice is characterized by a strong expressive plurality. This freedom of not locking herself into fixed categories, of constantly changing form and time even within the same project, tells well how the female approach to photography stands out today for its originality and dynamism.

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Lark Breen

Yelena Yemchuk captures magic and spirit of the cultural tradition through a personal, feminine lens.

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Emily Dinsdale

Malanka is an extension of her interest in the past and the present co-existing in the same shared space. This spectral sense of the past haunting – or living in – the present permeates many of her pictures.

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Nora Zukker

The people in the photographs appear resolute and proud. No other words come to mind than dignity and hope.

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/20/2024

picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom present Yelena Yemchuk signing 'Malanka'

picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom present Yelena Yemchuk on 'Malanka'

Thursday, June 20 at 6 PM, picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom present a talk and signing to celebrate Malanka, Yelena Yemchuk's recent photobook from Edition Patrick Frey. Book signing to follow.
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/17/2024

Arcana Books presents Yelena Yemchuk signing 'Malanka'

Arcana Books presents Yelena Yemchuk signing 'Malanka'

Saturday, February 17, from 4 to 6 PM, Arcana Books on the Arts will host Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk for the signing of her new book, Malanka, published by Edition Patrick Frey.
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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2024

Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood Books

Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood Books

Wednesday, March 6 from 6 to 8 PM, Dashwood Books will host Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk for the signing of her new book, Malanka, published by Edition Patrick Frey.
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2024

Ancient custom, from darkness to light, in 'Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka'

Ancient custom, from darkness to light, in 'Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka'

Featured spreads are from Ukranian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's most recent photobook, Malanka, documenting "Old New Year," a heavily incantatory, night-long, pre-christian, folklore ritual that takes place on January 14 every year. It is celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. For this project, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (aka Krasnoilsk) in 2019 and 2020, photographing the celebration meant to drive out winter and stimulate spring into existence—an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology. ⁠
Through Yemchuk’s gaze, spaces blur to create dreamscapes and metamorphoses. As with all of her work, Malanka is a personal, feminine, surrealist and magical project—in this case including a poetic essay by Romanian cultural journalist Ioana Pelehatăi, who traveled to Ukraine in 2023, as war raged to the east. She writes, “The locals shudder at the term ‘carnival,’ but we’ll circle back to that later. For now, I just want to point out that the origins of the term come from carne levare, or ‘remove flesh.’ Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras. The right time and place to renounce the old and bring in the new, to flip hierarchy on its head, to laugh in the face of hegemony. Malanka. Carnival. Maybe. … The Malanka chases out evil spirits and brings in the wealth of the new year. Here, in the old world’s east, death isn’t a boogeyman; it’s an acquaintance. It shows up, and you give it a place at the big table because you can’t make it leave. You respect death, but you don’t love it. Death is a strict mother, or a grandma who raised you.” continue to blog


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Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka

YELENA YEMCHUK: MALANKA

Edition Patrick Frey

ISBN: 9783907236673
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Pub Date: 3/5/2024
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