Malanka - Yelena Yemchuk public space and Taiwan

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Malanka - Yelena Yemchuk public space and TaiwanMalanka is Ukrainian American visual artist, Yelena Yemchuks sixth photobook. Like all bodies of work by Yemchuk, Malanka is personal, feminine, surrealist, and touched by a spell. The eponymous tradition is a pre christian, heavily incantatory folklore ritual that takes place on January 14, the Old New Year in the Julian calendar. It is celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine, and its origins are largerly unknown. Yemchuk traveled to Crasna