Yuliya Lanina: Drawing on violence in Ukraine

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May 10, 2022 Read Article: Sightlines Magazine

A collage of Yuliya Lanina’s “Guts,” a series of pen-and-ink drawings on paper in black, white, and gray, but also tinged, and sometimes soaked or splashed, with red—blood, anger, tears.

By Rebecca Rossen

In an animated video, Lanina — a second-generation Holocaust survivor — traces a generational cycle of trauma and silence, while a new series of drawings follows Ukraine’s current tragedy.