Season 2, Episode 4 35 min
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The guest of this episode is Masha Reva, an artist, designer, and visual storyteller. In an open and honest conversation, she speaks about creating her new work presented at M17, and about art as a way to process personal trauma, accept oneself, and begin a new chapter in life. We discuss the path to artistic identity, the power of vulnerability, embodiment and the female experience, the balance between work and personal life, large-scale formats, art as therapy, and the importance of staying in Ukraine and building a cultural community here and now. This episode is about maturity, bodily freedom, returning to oneself, and art that heals.
Season 2, Episode 6 Mar 25, 2026 52 min
Alina Zamanova shares her experience working with oil painting without formal academic training, exhibiting in Europe, participating in residencies, creating projects about children of war, experimenting with sculpture, and more.
Season 2, Episode 5 Mar 23, 2026 42 min
In this conversation, we discuss Yevgen Nikiforov's transition from commercial photography to documentary work; his long-term project to archive Ukrainian mosaics; decommunization; the loss of heritage due to war and neglect; and the creation of books and his own visual archive.
Season 2, Episode 3 Mar 18, 2026 31 min
The guest of the episode is Sasha Maslov, a Ukrainian-American photographer and documentary artist. We talk about his journey from Kharkiv to New York, the American dream of the 2000s, his work in photojournalism, and the search for his own voice in global media.