Albina Yaloza

Year of birth: 1978

Place of living: Kyiv

“The body of Christ” (series) | "Terra" (series)

| acrylic painting and linocut print on canvas |

The body of Christ accepts hints of altered geometries. Adopting victims and the dismantling of the body from the place of execution is a cross-section of each person's daily routine. This series presents the viewer's portrait of the empirical Uroboros of suffering and catharsis. Bread is the body; wine is the blood.

Vitaly Zherdev

Year of birth: 1971

Place of living: Kharkiv

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Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor of Drawing, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Honorary Professor of Sichuan University.

“Pain” | “Expectations” | “Look” (series)

| oil painting on canvas |

A series of works "Pain," "Expectations," and "Look" can be perceived as a series and as a series of individual works. It is a reflection on the events of our troubled times. Emotional pain and a wide range of emotions permeate the male figure, at the same time, a small cross - a symbol of Faith and the need to remain a Christian and a man regardless of the circumstances. An older woman, what is she waiting for? Maybe a son and perhaps his departure from earthly life. The image is enlightened and peaceful. It is already on the border between earthly life and eternity. She is ready for the main meeting. The gaze of the old is like the gaze of the Creator. There is no anger here. There are questions for us, His creations, and it is a pity because we have been given so much.

Mykyta Tsoy

Year of birth: 1991

Place of living: Kyiv

“Abandoned flowers” (series)

| oil painting on canvas |

The series consists of four works.
Every traveler (refugee) who left his home left his life there. Abandoned flowers are an allegorical background for the state of mind during a forced journey.

Olga Zaremba

Year of birth: 1994

Place of living: Kyiv

“New realities” (series)

| mix tecnica painting on canvas |

Here in Lviv, we have the opportunity to create and express our emotions on the canvas. I have been working on fears and anxieties for several years. It so happened that in the current conditions, it continues, although now I experience it in slightly different contexts and emotional states.

Kateryna Zub

Year of birth: 1980

Place of living: Kharkiv

“Mother” | “Christus Vincit” | “My Viburnum” | “Bridge”

| oil painting on canvas |

The stone withstands the losses caused by history. Human bodies, no. War destroys everything. There is no hope, only the pain of loss. The sculpture is a tombstone in the courtyard of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Kamianets-Podilskyi. The statue on the second canvas is in the same place - "Christus Vincit" (Christ wins). Christ, who suffers bullying, stands bound and is crucified. But he will still win because he will overcome death and be resurrected.

Two landscapes are the way from one's home to a temporary home, from ordinary life to the unknown.
"My Viburnum" is a view from my house window, and "Bridge" symbolizes the transition to another shore, to another life that will have to be known.

Victoria Romanchuk 

Year of birth: 1997

Place of living: Kivertsi, Volyn’ region

Oleksiy Konoshenko

Year of birth: 1979

Place of living: Gorlivka, Donetsk region

“Statue/state of the stone.” | “Bucha”

“States of War” (series)

| acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas |

The "States of War" series is about the hostilities in each of us, no matter where we are.
"Changing reality" is the moment when someone presses the trigger; what will happen then can no longer be compared with what existed before ...
"Anger" is not always a fight, sometimes, it is tears and flight, but it is always the most potent reaction that drives us.
After that always comes devastation  "Depression."
Studies claim that "after six months, almost everyone felt a decrease in negative emotions, BUT complete recovery has not occurred ..."
"Acceptance" is an action that cannot be completed now because how can you reconcile and accept what has no end and causes you new pain every day.  

Svyatoslav Nemchenko

Year of birth: 1999

Place of living: Kharkiv

“Numbness” (diptych) | “Soul”

| acrylic painting on canvas |

The feeling of hopelessness is caused by the initial fear that binds the body, changing the perception of reality to surrealism. When your body freezes in a motionless position because the whole space affects you like a trigger, iT is a state of explosions, panic, and uncertainty.

Daria Karnaukhova

Year of birth: 2002

Place of living: Kharkiv

“Three states.” (Series )

| acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas |

"Where does it fly from?"
"I understand."
"Attention!"

Black and white, achromatic images, resolved exclusively tonal. In these contrasts - internally experienced feelings, emotional state, and experience of a man of war.

Kateryna Leleko

Year of birth: 2002

Place of living: Dnipro

“Hunting” | “Hungry”

| acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas |

"Hunting"
The canvas depicts predatory sea creatures, the shape of whose bodies resemble missiles. These shells hunt for people's lives, homes, plans, and dreams. And yet freedom
"Hungry"
  The beast depicted is the skeleton of a cluster shell that exploded, crippling people's lives. But he went to the bottom, losing.

Oleksandra 
Vinichenko 

Year of birth: 2003

Place of living: Mariupol

“People” | “Freedom”

| acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas |

 "On the edge" - a drop on a sharp rock, flying into the dark unknown. This drop is my feelings. It is me, with my experience of war and loss. In 2014 I lost my first home in the Donetsk region. Now I don't have a second one in Mariupol
The diptych "People" attempts to convey the emotions of different people who are going through similar trials - sadness, anger, despair, uncertainty, hatred, anger, hopelessness, and indifference.
"Freedom"
The Monument of Independence of Ukraine was built in 2001. It is a sign of the freedom of our country, which they are trying to take away from us, We will not give up!

Kateryna Motspan 

Year of birth: 2003

Place of living: Vinnytsia

“Current”

| acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas |

Triptych "Current"

People like glass; transparent and fragile, they fully reflect the environment and are part of it.
When the environment is bright and joyful, people are full of hopes and plans to live; when the environment is filled with poison, people weaken, shrink, and become a weak reflection of their past.

The events depicted on the canvases flow smoothly, reflecting the passage of time and the variability of processes, where man is only a witness, only a fragile glass figure that reflects the world around him.