THROUGH THE WALL

Can you see me through The Wall?

Can you hear me through The Wall?

I am the mirror of your Fear.

Pass through me.

To freedom.

The war that russia brought to my country caused a lot of physical and emotional damage. Many of us spent hours hiding behind the two walls of our homes. This is the rule that we should follow, to protect ourselves from russian missile attacks. I couldn’t tell you how it feels – to wake up to the sound of sirens at night, to hide behind the two walls of your tiny apartment while hearing explosions in someone's home, and hoping that the next russian missile won’t hit yours. Indeed, the two walls gave me protection – the emotional one rather than the physical.

Hiding behind the walls, I realized that my home is so fragile and my life could be taken away in a moment. That’s how I lived with fear. The fear that I couldn't escape from, run from it, fight it. I could not hide from that fear behind the two walls. It's through the walls – the fear could pass, enter my body and settle in it within the sound of sirens.

I couldn’t tell you how it feels –

to live through the wall of fear.

But you know fear, don't you?

Perhaps you can see it…

“Through The Wall”, City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2023. WE SEE UKRAINE © Daria Pugachova. Photo: Lina Krivoshieva

WE SEE UKRAINE, Bulgaria, Croatia, 2023-2024

“Through The Wall”, City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (1, 6-8) Forum Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (2-5), 2023. WE SEE UKRAINE © Daria Pugachova. Photo: Lina Krivoshieva (1, 6-8) Vid Reda (2-5)

Through The Wall is part of WE SEE UKRAINE project by Tanuki Films (BG) in partnership with Tourism Development Centre of Lviv (UA) Eclectica (HR) uniting 6 artists from Ukraine, Bulgaria and Croatia working together on the topic of war. The project WE SEE UKRAINE was created with the financial support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Bulgarian National Culture Fund.

EXHIBITION AT KO-OP Sofia, 2024

“Through The Wall”, Ko-op, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2024. WE SEE UKRAINE © Daria Pugachova.