The atmosphere was restless on the 11th floor of the Orion tower in Montreuil (Paris region) on the evening of Friday, June 27. Three canvases, each measuring 170 × 77 centimeters, lay spread out on the floor, waiting to be rolled and slipped into a cardboard tube. In her high-perched studio, Ukrainian-born artist Polina Moroz, six months pregnant, was preparing to ship her paintings to the Cité radieuse in Marseille.
The Kolektiv gallery, nestled in one of the 337 apartments of the 'machine for living in' designed by Le Corbusier and inaugurated in 1952, in partnership with the Spilka Paris collective, is hosting the exhibition 'Sloboda' by Polina Moroz until July 8, kicking off a summer program dedicated to young Ukrainian women artists.
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