The central theme of the exhibition is the exploration of collective trauma during wartime, the proximity of death, and the sense of helplessness that drives one to seek the magical, archaic, and sacred.
Halyna Zhehulska (born 1957), or as her friends and acquaintances called her — Dzenia, is a Ukrainian artist who mainly worked in the field of abstract graphics and was a significant part of the underground art community of Lviv in the 1970s and 1980s.
The documentary photographs presented in the exhibition were taken over the past three decades during military conflicts in Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, in Donbas, and during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.