

«During a period of intense warfare in Ukraine in March — April 2022, two artists, Masha Reva and Ivan Grabko, were living and working in the city of Uzhgorod, displaced from their home in Kyiv. Staying in a temporary shelter-studio collectively organised by local artists and architects, they made a series of drawings, paintings and essays, gathered under the one open sky. An ultimate state of vulnerability, in which Ukrainian bodies are still exposed to the bombings and missile attacks coming from above. Dozens of peaceful cities and villages have been destroyed, burnt to the ground, millions of people escaped their homes, tens of thousands left behind, murdered and humiliated. War has permeated our whole life, I see it every morning on the tablecloth, inside my shoes, in the way people live, a child plays with a cat, beyond the peaceful reality threshold, horror begins on every corner and surface. The image that I only knew about, came to live in front of me. It appears and sticks out of the darkness in which it lives, it feels good and comfortable there. This is what the works of artists show us.»
Directed by Pavel Buryak (Ukraine)