Until February 24, 2022, private Kherson Museum of Contemporary Art, which was created by the artist Vyacheslav Mashnytskyi in his apartment, was the center of attraction for creative people. In early March, Vyacheslav said, looking out at a sea of ​​people with yellow and blue flags at an anti-Russian protest on the Freedome Square: "Winning is also an art."

On August 24, 2022, in the occupied Kherson on the Independence Day of Ukraine, 20 meters away from a Russian checkpoint, Kherson Museum of Modern Art opened an exhibition "Untitled". Curator and organizer of the exhibition Mykola Homanyuk says:

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"The purpose of the exhibition was to do what we did before the war - to create free art how you want, when and where you want to do it. This was our resistance: not to let someone impose their rules on us by force. The exhibition was also an occasion to get together. In the museum itself, we hung the paintings and recorded a video tour, and we met the next day at Slava's country house – in the green branch of the museum."

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Kherson artist KAR, who deliberately did not want to leave Kherson, also brought her work to the exhibition:

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"I started studying Ukrainian history in depth in 2020. And I stayed in Kherson to test my feelings for Ukraine for their sincerity."

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However, it was necessary to pass a test not only for sincerity, but also for toughness. The artist carried her work to the exhibition, hiding it in her purse, because for such art, the author would definitely be sent "to the basement": the painting depicted a table covered with a tablecloth with the inscription "It's our place to live”, and around the table – the invaders and their politicians looking very unpleasant, headed by the Russian empress Catherine II.

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At the beginning of November 2022, the girl went to her mother's birthday on the left bank. She cut the picture into pieces and sewed them into clothes. A week later, Kherson was liberated. From the occupied left bank, the artist again took her paintings cut into pieces through Russian checkpoints. She had to talk to the FSB for more than an hour at the checkpoint at the entrance to Crimea, and all this time she was worried about those pieces sewn into her clothes, which could become her sentence.

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The artist restored the painting by putting together the scraps taken from the occupation.