“All I can think about is death. The first time waking up to bombing and the sound of sirens is a frightening and not yet experienced feeling.” Mariia Stepanchenko’s work is about this feeling of tension and the darkness that has suddenly entered her life. A darkness that is frustrating and at the same time shows what matters most in your life. Surviving. It is from these primal instincts and the fierceness of the warlike events around her that the power and expression of her haunting work is fed.