In the Zhytomyr region, among centuries-old forests and ancient mounds, there is an old house under a thatched roof. It’s not just a house – it’s a living museum, where every thing breathes history. This is the second home of Yurii Kamyshnyi, a national artist of Ukraine, philosopher, and traveller.

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by russia caught the artist in Egypt, where he was on a creative business trip. But even thousands of kilometres away, Yurii did not stand aside. He created a series of pastels and oil paintings, which were sold at charity auctions, raising a considerable amount of money for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Exhibitions, billboards with his works – all this became a visual resistance to aggression.

One of his works, an image of a dog named Patron, was featured on billboards in Zhytomyr, and his caricatures of propagandists and dictators have been repeatedly blocked on social media. Behind each drawing is indignation, faith, pain and hope. The artist believes that art is capable of maintaining the spiritual, cultural, and moral order no less than weapons.

Here, in the old Polissia house of Horodske village, he created a unique cultural and artistic space. Every object in this house – from an old rushnyk to figurines from Easter Island – has its own soul. The artist believes that things can speak if you listen to them with your heart. This house has become a place for meetings, excursions, and parties. People from all over Ukraine and abroad come here to touch the living history.