Declared a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice, Daria Apakhonchich is required to submit a 116-page report four times a year, detailing her financial and public activities. Since the beginning of the war, the artist has transformed these mandatory reports into anti-war statements.

Hello, Ministry of Justice

Four times a year, you expect reports from me detailing what I have been doing over the past three months.

I walked through the mountains, the same ones that people traverse to escape the war.

I swam in the Black Sea, which was warm and calm, but I knew that mines were exploding off the Ukrainian coast.

I saw flowers that grew during the war.

And it was both beautiful
and terrifying.

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