“I decided to bring together and juxtapose the buildings in Germany, where Valery Lamakh began his career, and Kiev, where he lived and worked as an artist. I made the buildings meet each other through the movement of their facades, covered with ceramic tiles, together forming moving webs, moving away from each other and meeting again. I found it interesting that after the war both in the Soviet Union and in Germany, for clear and not so clear reasons a large number of buildings were covered with ceramic tiles. In some of his mosaics Lamakh had used the motifs of his secret "schematic illustrations" and had illegally introduced them into the mosaics as a message for future generations. For the censorship these schemes, which spoke about the universe and the human being, were not understood as such, but were read as harmless sophisticated ornaments.

"We want to prevent amnesia, the loss of memory and history. During my work on the Artium Museoa exhibition moved by the impact of the war, I decided to add an appendix in Along the Axis of Affinity with the images in which I collected the situation in Ukraine, showing the cities at night, at the beginning of the war. But, to be honest, it doesn't stop me from feeling helpless".

Anna Daučíková (Bratislava, 1950) is a Slovak visual artist and activist who lives between Prague and Bratislava. From 1999 to 2011 she was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Daučíková is one of the first Slovak artists to openly identify herself as queer and commit herself to feminism.
During the 1980s, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, she moved to Moscow. He worked on automatic abstract paintings, questioning the notion of authorship. He lived in the Soviet Union for 12 years during the perestroika period. During this time, he did not publicly exhibit his artwork. During this period, he produced a series of black and white photographs documenting certain aspects of everyday life in the late Soviet era, such as "Moscow / Women / Sunday" (1989-1990), which showed Moscow women on the street. During this time, he also produced photographic series of drinking glasses in various constellations installed in public environment including "Family Album" (1990). Returning to Bratislava in 1991, she co-founded the Slovak feminist cultural magazine "Aspekt". During the 1990s, she experimented with the representation of sexuality in the audiovisual field, often combining video projections with live presentations.
She has exhibited in several important international exhibitions, such as "Gender Check" (2009-2010) at the Mumok in Vienna and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, and "documenta 14" (2017) in Athens and Kassel. In 2018 he won the Schering Stiftung Art Prize and had a solo exhibition at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin