Stanislava Pinchuk’s ‘The Theatre of War’ Now Available from Perimeter Books

19 Dec 2024

Stanislava Pinchuk’s newly launched book The Theatre of War is a visual translation of her major three-channel moving image commission of the same name, which debuted at ACMI Melbourne earlier this year.

Pinchuk is a Sarajevo-based, Ukrainian-Australian artist whose work maps the contours of global conflict with great sensitivity, poeticism, and unexpected beauty. The Theatre of War follows three distinct perspectives, including footage from Pinchuk’s time as the Australian Official War Artist to Operation Kudu, witnessing Ukrainian soldiers engaging in intensive combat training at an unmarked location. Alongside this, Pinchuk records a female choir rehearsing in a Sarajevo theatre once used to stage defiant performances during the Bosnian War, and two youths reciting Homer’s Iliad on the Greek island of Ios, a span of the Mediterranean through which asylum seekers make their treacherous journeys.

Published by Perimeter Books, The Theatre of War features an interview between Pinchuk and Ukrainian curator and art historian Lilia Kudelia. A special edition of 50 copies also includes a genuine offset proof sheet from the book-printing process, signed and numbered by the artist.

Order your copy online through Perimeter Books.

Image: book cover and pages from Stanislava Pinchuk, The Theatre of War, 2024; courtesy of Perimeter Books