Collaborating at the edge of visual art and cinema since 2013, Kyiv-based artists and filmmakers, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk graduated as cinematographers from the Institute of Screen Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Focusing on the role of the statistican, their works engage with imperialist mythologies. They were awarded the main award of the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2020) and VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2021). Currently, their new video installation is on view at Dare to Dream, a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia 2024.

In the video work, the artists recreate the positions of fallen Russian soldiers in an idyllic mountain landscape. They refer to the photo series ‘If I Were a German’ (1994) by the Ukrainian "Fast Reaction Group" and the famous romantic painting ‘The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ by Caspar David Friedrich. This shows a figure rising above the landscape. With ‘The Wanderer’, the artists refer to the current colonisers of Ukraine and question the Western and German view of the Russian war aggression in Ukraine.