From Left to Right

From left to right, that's one of the options for direction when writing. From left to right, that also describes the spectrum of political and social views and orientations. From left to right, those were the positions of the revolters in the Maidan uprising in Kyiv. On November 21, 2013, the government of Ukraine announced that it would not sign the negotiated association agreement with the EU. The demonstrations and popular protests against this decision resulted in weeks of street fighting and a tent camp in and around central Maidan Square. At least 80 people were shot dead by the security police. A ceasefire is agreed on February 21, 2014. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych flees to Russia. On March 1, 2014, Russia officially sends troops to Crimea. On March 18, 2014, Crimea was annexed by Russia. In April 2014, separatists proclaimed the People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine. A front war in the middle of Europe begins.

Photographs taken by the artist during the Maidan uprising served as templates for Lada Nakonechna's drawings. Like hundreds of thousands of others, she was in favor of Ukraine's orientation towards Western Europe. She advocated an open democracy and a break with the oligarchy and state-controlled democracy based on the Russian model. The barricades have dissolved. A clear picture for the future of the country, a perspective is still not in sight almost ten years after the sacrificial uprising.