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The solo exhibition “So, are you here for long?” by Ukrainian artist Natalia Oliferovych offers a mature and critical perspective on art created under conditions of war and geographic displacement.

The project deliberately moves away from the dominant Western media image of Ukraine as an exclusively “victorious” nation, focusing instead on the inner workings of the Western world and the complex emotional states of Ukrainians living abroad.

The artist finds herself on a paradoxical “fault line”: physically safe, she feels “out of game” with the events engulfing Ukraine, while her body reacts daily to shock, unable to fully believe in a new, “bright” and “foreign” reality.

This is a study of the (o)bіzhenka (a term blending “offended” and “refugee”) — a person who has the privilege of choice but is burdened with guilt and the fear of losing connections with home.