Children in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv created artworks portraying their experience of war while living underground in the city’s metro, where residents had sought refuge from Russian bombs, for three gruelling months. Their striking artworks are now the subject of an exhibition in Paris that runs through November 4. FRANCE 24 spoke to the show’s organisers during their brief stop in the French capital.
Until barely a week ago, Mykola Kolomiets had never travelled outside his native Ukraine. Two days after landing in Paris, the 39-year-old artist from Kharkiv was still struggling to find his bearings, unnerved by the bustle of the French capital and the roar of planes flying overhead.
“At every rumble I feel I need to duck for cover,” he said, speaking through a translator. “But I try to keep this at a distance. I’m here for work.”
Kolomiets is the director of “Aza…
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