Dana Kavelina primarily works with animation and video as well as installation, painting and graphics. She graduated from the Graphics Department of the National Technical University of Ukraine. Her work often explores military violence and war in relation to the position of the victim as a political subject as well as the distance between historical and individual trauma, memory and misrepresentation. For Pochen 2024, Dana has created a new film, co-produced with the Pinchuk Art Center (Kyiv / Ukraine).

The film is a poetic rumination on questions of justice in times of war, fuelled by images of forced drafting in Ukraine. It circles around the complex relation of human animals at war to the environments and landscapes which are mapped as a territory to either protect or lose, and tries to imagine a relation of nonhuman actors to war inside those environments. A camouflage becomes a line of escape, or line of kinship of human and the environment, and in this respect, a way home.