
As a person coming from the occupied territories in Eastern Ukraine and as an artist who works extensively with traumatic experiences, I constantly face these kinds of questions. And while I might not have a definitive answer, I believe I have found a way to speak about personal trauma and remain objective, to give voice to the victims and make them heard, to find a way to show the personal scale of mass traumatic events.
Lia Dostlieva is an independent artist, curator and cultural anthropologist. Currently she is a Visiting Fellow of IWM’s Ukraine in European Dialogue program.
