Flower of Despair
I spend my days looking through articles and photos from the liberated Bucha. The brutality of what I saw and read is amazing. Does it make sense to continue working? Why do you need art if it can't save life? What is the value of an artist's word against artillery fire and insidious extermination of all living things?
Yaroslav Boruta, 2022
Kyiv, Ukraine
Yaroslav Boruta is a multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine. He works with illustrations, performances, and photography. From his first group exhibition in 2019, he works with themes of loneliness, silence, and self-exploration. In 2021, Yaroslav began to work on projects that were researching Ukrainian cultural identity (like «Yol Qirim» in Kyiv (Ukraine) and group exhibition «War is not peace» in Bordeaux (France))
See more of his work on Instagram.