Radiations of War
Yana Kononova
“War does not end when the noise of explosions fades. It lingers, saturating the land, embedding itself in the silence of devastated landscapes. Radiations of War traces this persistence—not as a documentary record, but as an encounter with a terrain where disaster does not conclude with impact but continues to unfold, turning the land into both witness and archive. What emerges when the frontline recedes? Ruins are not inert remains; they are landscapes in transformation, charged with what has passed through them. These images are not mere documents, but evidence of how war seeps into the topography, how violence settles into the earth and lingers in the weight of absence. The term radiations evokes the composite, polluted nature of the war experience. It suggests more than what the eye perceives—a hum, a tremor—that alters our sense of space. It moves through memory, through the body, beyond the body, across generations. Here, war is neither an event nor a singular catastrophe but a process without end, radiating outward, rippling across the land, inscribing itself long after the moment of violence.”
