Under Russian occupation, Mariupol’s cultural institutions have become propaganda and repression machines.

“The customer is king, do you not understand?”

“I learned, in fact, how to make myself invisible.”

“All I wanted was to be nowhere with you.”

“There lay the space suit, its sleeves and legs twisted unnaturally, like a victim of a fall from a great height.”

“He had neither family nor tribe to be proud of, except for Neil Armstrong, who set foot on the Moon the day he was born.”