In summer 2022, the information space was shaken by reports that Russia was systematically deporting Ukrainian children from occupied regions, hiding them deep within Russia, and illegally adopting them by changing their names and altering their biographies.

Many of these children were separated from their relatives in Ukraine, and orphans were quickly adopted into Russian families. Even the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, adopted a child from Mariupol, a city devastated by Russian forces.

In the diptych Kidnappings, we see a scene set in an ordinary apartment. In the left painting, the children are peacefully sleeping, while in the right painting, the children are gone. This illustrates how swiftly not only the letters on the canvas shift, but also real life—real people are displaced, and human destinies are shattered.