Deciding Your Tomorrow

“Ukraine is deciding your tomorrow. Ukraine is deciding Europe's tomorrow. It's deciding the world's tomorrow. It's deciding its own tomorrow. And this is what we want to speak about here. What happens in Ukraine will define how the world will look in five years, in 10 years and 20 years from now. It is a very crucial conflict in the history of the world because it is a war of values. And when we speak of a war of values, it is a war where we have opposing values, one of autocracy, and one of democracy. And this is something that we want to talk about here,” Björn Geldhof, artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, commented on this year's theme.

Oleksii Sai spoke in more detail about the idea and motivation behind the work: "At the beginning of the full-scale invasion I was approached by Björn Geldhof and the PinchukArtCentre team with the idea to make a video from photographs, because the material that photographers collect while risking their lives is impressive. At the same time, in my work, I tried to make sure that people who were less involved in our war could see the scale. This is something that passes by in the news or social media, where everything is dispersed, and I tried to group everything so that people could estimate the full picture as much as possible. My goal is to give people solid knowledge about the events in Ukraine not at the level of words or images, but at the level of feelings. To share what we feel."