UCRAINA/2

The sculpture at the centre of the Ukrainian project stands as a powerful symbol of the unfulfilled promises of nuclear disarmament enshrined in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, signed with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation. Conceived as a materialisation of the spirit of the agreement, the work was later forcibly uprooted from its original location due to its proximity to the front line of the Russia–Ukraine conflict. In this new condition, it emerges as an emblem of pacifism that has become increasingly fragile, which is no longer perceived as a shared horizon but as a privilege that can no longer be sustained.