Gogol is a writer we remember from school textbooks. Back then, a composition on the given subject set a lasting desire to never hear about the classics again. The totalitarian legacy deeply penetrated school education.

"School Portraits" by Oleksandr Roytburd is a creative attempt to focus attention on this issue, a protest against the rust and monotony of the system that has remained, in which individuality is suppressed and the portraits of the classics hanging on the classroom walls play the role of the all-seeing Big Brother. Sooner or later, any violence will cause rejection. The painter becomes the surgeon who opens the abscess ar removes the accumulated pus - fear. Stylistically, Roytburd cleverly chose (guessed!) a laconic graphical format. We see the preparation and freeing of the consciousness. At the festival the idience will be given a rare chance to return to a school desk and create their own "school" portrait.

Lidahovskyi's installation "Rainbows Over Your Grass" is made up of several segmental sculptures painted and positioned in such a way that the overall color of the composition changes when you move around it. It becomes impossible to characterize an object, as it is in constant motion. The coordinate system becomes important, along with space and the transition om one quality to another. The title refers to the mnemonic device used in school to memorize colors of the rainbow. In Lidahovskyi's I it is a living color scheme, a sign, a color symbol. The rainbow is an implemented metaphor, a heavenly allegory, but also a symbol of a new world, seen and perceived for the first time...