About the project
TROP is an exhibition that presents the tradition of sacred wood art of the Ukrainian Carpathians as a unique phenomenon of spiritual, artistic, and ethnic identity, publicly showcasing artifacts of sacred property of Ukrainian statehood.
These artifacts are simultaneously elements of the spiritual landscape that shaped Ukrainian religious identity. We return them to the public sphere as part of political, artistic, and legal history.
Mykhailo Pryimych, Doctor of Art History, Rector of the “Zakarpattya Academy of Arts.” Watch lectures ⬀
We restore the continuity of sacred form
We collect documentation, public exhibitions, digital maps, and research texts.
We reinstall church carving in the digital environment.
We actualize and promote craftsmanship through contemporary practices
Explaining the meaning, form, and function of artifacts in the context of worship, tradition, and identity.
We create an institutional example:
How curatorial, educational, and restoration practices can be integrated into a holistic model of working with sacred heritage.
We decolonize memory through a focus on authentic Ukrainian experience
We lay the foundation for memory decolonization — through distinguishing the Ukrainian sacred tradition from its substitution by ROC structures, relying on scholarly, museum-based, and legal reasoning.