Breaking Bread

This picture shows a girl holding bread in her hands. This girl is executed in black and white as a symbol of our past, through her eyes our ancestors look at us, who also experienced wars and famine. This bread is a symbol of our hope for victory over Russian troops and a symbol of prosperity of Ukraine!

Ruslana Neshta | Kyiv, Ukraine

Ruslana Neshta was born on April 2, 1986 in Kyiv. She attended Kyiv University from 2006-2011, after which she studied and worked as a stained glass artist at the company “Pivnich Sklo” in Kyiv.

In 2012, her work "Mary Magdalene" was featured at an exhibition at the Tulchyn Local History Museum.

On March 6, 2022, Ruslana's house was shot and her house was beyond restoration. She migrated to France on April 3, 2022. In August, she contributed to a personal exhibition in France, Brittany (Brignan-Plage) at the gallery "Guily Joffrin". Read her interview in the Ouest France newspaper here.

“Art is my whole life. I trained as an artist and my father is a restorer of old wood for Orthodox churches. Together with my mother, they still live in Kyiv. I will do everything to help them leave Kyiv. My brother and his family are in Poland.”

See more of Ruslana’s work here.