UKRAINE/1

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.