Veronika Bernard

In Haifa in Hadar you can meet people who will surprise you with their outfit. I have never seen so many bright and grotesque characters. It was
as if a big Broadway show had arrived, and the actors, without changing their clothes and washing off their makeup, decided to walk around the
city. This show is about the frozen time of emigrants, about Orthodox and LGBT people, Arabs and Eritreans - buffoonery. At the same time,
such social diversity and freedom in approach to appearance can only be presented in a society that is free from prejudices. Where they won't
mock you that you're poor and put on just any clothes, or consider you a vulgar victim of mass production, or a jet-set. Nobody cares - be
whoever you are. In the end, I decided to collect these images in a collection. Carefully and with love. Small size, like Barbie dolls. I put them in
boxes because I would have liked to have such dolls in my childhood - bright personalities but instead of empty smiling beauties.
Dolls were made from plaster on the metal skeleton and painted acrylic.

This series of drawings is about the reality of life in Russia before and after the start of the war. The works are drew after the start of the war in Ukraine.