«Day 923 of full-scale war”, 2024
Ukrainian soil and oil on wooden panel
40 x 30 cm
In her ongoing series "Days of Full-Scale War,” an artist documents episodic memory occurred during war in Ukraine through self-portraits painted with Ukrainian soil- an element that reference both the land and its resilience. Her self-portraits become vessels of war memory, inscribed with the traces of private recollection and collective experience. This series started on the 24th of February, 2022 when the full-scale invasion war began in Ukraine.
Ukrainian soil became the main material for this series, hand collected in different regions around Ukraine.
