Solomiya No. 1 — War but Art
Christina Erturk, Sasha Kurmaz, Sonya Marian, Vsevolod Kazarin, Mykola Ridnyi, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells
In Solomiya’s very first issue, you will encounter some of those who grew up in an independent Ukraine and are paying a huge price for the European integration they seek. We invite you to meet young creatives from Kyiv and elsewhere who write, create and don’t stop self-expressing their identities through their fashion. Further, we show for the first time brandnew works by Sasha Kurmaz, who also created the cover motif. While Mykola Ridnyi’s iconic series “Blindspot” recalls the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, a protocol traces the lives of two young inhabitants from Bucha who survived the Russian occupation in 2022.