Maria Matiashova is an Ukrainian artist from Kyiv. She obtained a law degree at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. However, she left the legal profession and began artistic practice in 2020. In her practice, the artist aims for simple but expressive gestures. She explores social relations, institutions, collective memory and language. Mariia works with video, text, performance, and installation.

The paper planes are made from the texts of the main treaties on international humanitarian law that Russia is violating. These are the four Geneva Conventions and two treaties that prohibit using specific, particularly brutal, weapons and ammunition. Amid a fleet of military aircraft, the law is like a paper plane — childlike and easily crumpled.