Alevtina Kakhidze: 'Drawing the War' Exhibition

Fisher Family Commons Gallery, CGIS Knafel Building
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., July 12, 2026



The exhibition "Drawing the War" invites viewers into the intimate, raw space where everyday life and wartime reality collide. Living in Ukraine throughout Russia’s full scale invasion, the artist, Alevtina Kakhidze, works from the immediacy of her experience; her visceral reactions, bodily tensions, and emotional fluctuations become the material of her art. Her drawings, writings, and performance based reflections do not illustrate the war from afar; they transmit it from within. Each piece carries the pulse of a person navigating constant uncertainty, trying to preserve clarity, dignity, and humor in conditions that make such efforts difficult, at times impossible.

Every artwork in this exhibition is paired with a news article sourced across American media, to anchor Kakhidze’s personal narrative within the broader factual record of the war. These links function not as explanatory labels but as parallel threads, expanding each work’s emotional charge with real world contexts.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Curators: Constance Uzwyshyn and Alex Grabovsky, Exhibition Coordinator: REECA student Anastasiia Pereverten
Cost: Free
Contact Info: [email protected]
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…