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The book explores the contemporary artistic community's reflections on the events in Ukraine during the Revolution of Dignity and the war with Russia, revealing the potential of art to resolve social conflicts.

The book contains more than fifty interviews with prominent artists, curators, and art historians who talk about their civic and artistic responses to current events in Ukraine. Together with the author, they reflect on the transformative power of art in resolving social conflicts and the role of the artist in this process. The book exists on different levels of reading: at the level of artistic image, artistic reflection, and documentary evidence. For those who seek to know and understand contemporary Ukraine, it offers to use the most direct and universal language - artistic images.

The book includes more than 100 reproductions of visual works provided by artists, Ukrainian museums and private galleries.

"Artists who capture the rupture of the present leave artefacts for future cultural archaeologists. Socially engaged artists work because they understand the peak of the situation, but even those artists who claim not to address the topic of war demonstrate the opposite in their works. It is this zone of meaningful and unmeaningful artistic influence that makes up the space of this book."

"Art has the creative potential to reveal and heal, as well as the power to build relationships. It becomes a bridge not only to the inner world of the individual, but also to the dynamic landscape of relationships between individuals, families, communities and nations. Art brings together a collective narrative that includes testimonies of suffering, loss, conflict and discrimination, and enables the weakest to be heard. It can create a sense of security within which there is room for understanding, reunification and forgiveness."

Olesia Gerashchenko (Chambour)