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Terykony / Boney Piles

Place: Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou. Paris, France.

Time: 19 Jun 2022

A poster of the former USSR on a façade, and right next to it, a second-hand store advertises “European quality”. In eastern Ukraine, the war opposing Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, ravaging the east of the country since 2014, has left houses as bomb sites and, everywhere, desolation.

 

This is where Nastya and Yarik live. With the other children, they take over the ruins and dumps as their playground, drawing on their innate resilience to trump their traumatic experiences. 

 

This is a story of children who have suffered from shelling and lost their parents and dear ones but continue to live and love where others have given up on all hope.