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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Making sense of the senseless: Ukrainian war-art exhibition arrives in Brussels

Screaming clay heads
Daria Koltsova’s clay heads, representing Ukrainian children killed in the war. Photograph: Anna Gurnova/The Captured House

Traditional Ukrainian embroidery featuring guns and military helicopters; a graffitied portrait of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin; photographs of smartly dressed school leavers standing in the ruins of a shelled building in Kharkiv: all feature in an exhibition of Ukraine’s newest artworks.

While the country’s art is perhaps getting more attention than ever before, The Captured House exhibition, which opened in Brussels last week, stands out because 90% of the works have been created since the Russian invasion began on 24 February.

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