"These are images against war that call for remembrance and action." Kateryna Mishchenko
Since the day of February 24, when the great war broke out in Ukraine, the people there have lost sleep. For four years, they have been fighting for life - for their own lives and for the existence of others. They have had to leave their homes, hide in shelters, separate from families and friends, worry about others, save, fight. The people live in fear, they hate and love, they remain ironic, they know grief, the courage of despair and the most contradictory feelings.
The series of drawings "Sleepless" shows the simultaneity and the excess of the most diverse experiences of war. The exhibition of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv office, brings together images that are already imprinted in the collective memory or small episodes from everyday life - it is a collage of a new reality of war that is unstable and devastating, that needs to be reflected upon and commented on.
Illustration by Nataliia Shulga or Maria Kinovych
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