It is difficult to describe the feelings that arise when your homeland is wiped off the face of the earth by the occupiers of the Russian Federation. The bombing of people and cities turns everything into ashes and dead bodies. Habitual values in the mind are erased when you realize that everything around is relative. And all those values that man had before the war, disappeared, and the desire remained to simply live and fight for their land.
The work is done on a blackened board using iron wire, symbolizing the relativity of everything and the rigidity of the environment. A large number of skulls symbolizes the huge human losses of the Ukrainian population.
Vitaly Khoma is a contemporary Ukrainian artist, based in Kyiv. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kyiv in 1997. During his career, he participated in various exhibitions and residences both in Ukraine and abroad, such as The international contemporary Art Fair in Essen, Germany; Dramatic Architecture Project, Sevilla, Spain; Depressed Area, Kavala, Greece; Trienale Art 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine. Vitaly makes his artworks from the fence boards because they “always were material for protests, in which it was possible to express your thoughts, with impunity reproducing them in any form”. Currently, Vitaly is in Kyiv, where he volunteers and continues to create his artworks.