Darya Koltsova's Lullaby in Davos

Davos, May 2022, the World Economic Forum at the turn of the tide of history. The representatives stand up for the rights of our country at the highest level on the political front, and activists stage an action against the energy business sector working with an aggressor country. On the cultural front, Ukrainian artist Darya Koltsova speaks out to the public in Davos, Switzerland through her performance Lullaby.

01 June 22

Davos, May 2022, the World Economic Forum at the turn of the tide of history. The representatives stand up for the rights of our country at the highest level on the political front, and activists stage an action against the energy business sector working with an aggressor country. On the cultural front, Ukrainian artist Darya Koltsova speaks out to the public in Davos, Switzerland through her performance Lullaby.

Her work is a ritual of honouring every young life lost, the life that has just started but that has been taken by Russia. The artist has materialised the statistics of the casualties of war – the actual losses of Ukrainian children during the three months of the ongoing war. During night hours for all these months, Darya has moulded little ceramic heads as a symbol of the children who were murdered, and now in Davos, she has gathered them together to "sing" them the last lullaby and let go of every little soul in peace.

❝Today people all over my country are hiding in basements and bomb shelters. People use tally marks for counting days, and people are killed. Walls are becoming Registries of the dead. I am torn apart by pain. I have lost a child in the past. Today Ukraine loses children every day❞, Darya has posted on Instagram recently.

This project of the artist is ongoing, the same as the war, as it continues and children die almost every single day, and the figure is painfully growing.

The importance of the cultural sector in the current war cannot be overestimated, as it is through preservation, support, and assistance of the cultural sector that one can not only keep the truth about this period of modern times for the history but also reach the minds and eyes of the masses. Action must be taken right here and now, every person is fighting on their own front.

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Photo by Nadiia Pototska, Darya Koltsova