亚色影库app

An open access publication of the 亚色影库app & Sciences
Spring 2023

Izium

Author
Sergiy Maidukov
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Sergiy Maidukov is a Donetsk-born and Kyiv-based illustrator who regularly works with The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian Weekly, The Washington Post, and others. His works are present in the public spaces of Kyiv, exhibited in the U.S. Library of Congress, and are permanently exhibited at the Hall of Contemporary Art of the Odessa Art Museum.

A digital rendering of four people in hazmat suits holding a black bag weighed down with something around to the size of a human body. Trees surround them in the background, and caution tape stretches between the trees closest to them, creating a barrier between the figures and the viewer.

袪褨蟹薪懈褑褟 胁 褋锌褉懈泄薪褟褌褌褨 胁褨泄薪懈 褔械褉械蟹 褋褌褉褨褔泻褍 薪芯胁懈薪 褨 薪邪卸懈胁芯鈥撔盒拘恍狙佇靶谎屝叫. 携泻 褍泻褉邪褩薪械褑褜, 褟 褏芯褌褨胁 斜邪褔懈褌懈 褑褞 褌褉邪谐械写褨褞鈥撔敌貉佇逞冃夹把喲栄 褌褨谢 褍泻褉邪褩薪褑褨胁, 蟹邪泻邪褌芯胁邪薪懈褏 褉芯褋褨褟薪邪屑懈鈥撔叫 胁谢邪褋薪褨 芯褔褨. 携 褉芯蟹锌芯胁褨写邪褌懈屑褍 写芯薪褜褑褨 锌芯褌褨屑 锌褉芯 胁褨泄薪褍; 蟹芯泻褉械屑邪 褟 褏芯褔褍 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌懈 锌褉芯 褌械, 褋胁褨写泻芯屑 褔芯谐芯 斜褍胁 芯褋芯斜懈褋褌芯. 携 胁懈褌褉懈屑邪胁 锌褨胁褌芯褉懈 谐芯写懈薪懈. 袛褍卸械 褌褟卸泻芯.

鈥淭here is a colossal difference between one鈥檚 real-life perception of war versus perceptions of war from the media. As a Ukrainian, I wanted to see this tragedy鈥搕he exhumation of the bodies of Ukrainians tortured by the Russians鈥搘ith my own eyes. When I tell my daughter about the war in the future, I want to share what I personally witnessed. I watched the exhumation for an hour and a half before I could no longer bear to look. It was extremely difficult.鈥