Euromaidan 2014

Alevtyna Kakhidze made this drawing, Euromaidan, with what looks like a ballpoint pen, capturing a scene with an immediacy that feels like a thought caught in ink. The marks are urgent, with a kind of scratchy, searching quality, almost as if she’s feeling her way through the space. Look at the lower left corner, there’s this dark, scribbled mass of lines. It’s like she’s trying to dig into the paper, emphasizing something hidden or maybe obscuring it. It reminds me a bit of Cy Twombly, but with a political edge. There’s this rawness and vulnerability in the line work, but also a sense of resilience, like she’s piecing together fragments of memory and history.