The Khanenko Museum as Noble Double-wounded

Abstract

In this article, I consider the Khanenko Museum as noble and double-wounded, a concept that emerges from two trains of thought. The first pertains to the attack on Kyiv on 10 October 2022, which destroyed the Khanenko Museum, famous for owning the largest collection of global art in Ukraine. The second stream of thought is related to theories of wounding as a specific condition, an aesthetic mode, a way of experiencing time and space. These theories allow us to conceive of the grief and pain caused by destruction, but not necessarily to surmount it.