Liverpool Cathedral is preparing to welcome a poignant new art installation, which depicts the one-way journey of escape that has been taken by many Ukrainians since the full-scale Russian invasion began.
Izyum to Liverpool by Ukrainian artist, Katya Buchatska, opens on 28 April and is free to experience until 19 May.
In her first UK exhibition, Buchatska delivers a heart-wrenching reminder of why the Eurovision Song Contest is being held in Liverpool instead of Ukraine. Commissioned as part of the EuroFestival cultural programme, which runs from 1-14 May in the build up to the Eurovision Song Contest, Izyum to Liverpool takes visitors on a captivating journey through the current Ukrainian landscape.
Filmed in real-time on a 24 hour rail journey from Izyum in Eastern Ukraine to the border with Poland, the multi-channel video installation gives visitors a sense of travelling on a train carriage out of Ukraine.
Photo Credit: Gareth Jones Photography.