"Contemporary art does not solve questions of aesthetics. Aesthetics appeals to the exemplary, thereby creating grounds for discrimination. This approach reached its peak in Nazi and Soviet art, although in postwar Western art we also see objectification of women, “fascism of the body” in gay aesthetics, and so on.War prompts Ukrainian artists, as well as citizens in general, to be more attentive to individual experience. There is a societal demand for heroization, but both in artistic and commemorative practices, sensitivity to the individual is felt. War is made up of very specific trials, actions, and decisions of each person, a diversity of fates. This is reflected across the broad spectrum of Ukrainian art—from portraits of Anti-Authoritarian Armed Forces soldiers by David Chichkan, who died in August at the front, to the emergence of figurative elements in the practice of abstraction master Volodymyr Budnikov". https://tie2.lt/en/kostiantyn-doroshenko-descendants-will-give-meaning-to-these-times-they-will-typologize-them-we-can-only-live-through-them/