On August 23, on the occasion of the Ukrainian Flag Day and the Independence Day, the ARTEFACT project made a light installation of a yellow and blue flag on the southern wall of the New Safe Confinement Arch.

In addition to the flag of Ukraine, the flags of 40 Donor Countries and Contributor Countries to the Chornobyl Shelter Found, which took part in NSC construction, flashed on the Arch as a sign of gratitude and respect.

According to the ARTEFACT project author - Valerii Korshunov, the event was created to show that the memory of the Chornobyl tragedy is as bright as it was 34 years ago. Projections of the Ukrainian flag to the Arch and to other well-known locations and facilities of the Exclusion Zone also emphasize the importance of change of meaning about Chornobyl from the post-apocalyptic area of the Soviet Union into a zone of cultural and scientific research and innovations.

"It is very symbolic that today we are witnessing a patriotic action on the occasion of the State Flag Day and the Independence Day of Ukraine. And although our state is only 29 years old, and the Chornobyl disaster occurred 34 years ago, it was our destiny to overcome its consequences. This matter has unified not only the Ukrainians, but the entire world, because the problem required new, non-standard solutions, which we can only find together," — summed up the event a Minister of the Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Roman Abramovsky.

For more information see: Project "New Safe Confinement Construction"

The ARTEFACT project with using the modern media art not for the first time attracts attention to Chornobyl in order to rethink it as a national trauma and to form a new modern perception of this accident in Ukraine and in the world, considering it not only as a severe man-made disaster, but also as an informational and social catastrophe in the consequences of which we are living today.

Surce: State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management
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