Програма розвитку ООН в Україні / UNDP Ukraine 69d ago

Till 30 April 2026, the Gulliver Shopping and Entertainment Centre in Kyiv will host the audio installation “Land: The Bearer of Memory”, dedicated to humanitarian demining. The installation consists of 11 transparent cylinders, ten of which are filled with soil from regions affected by hostilities, creating a space where the land “speaks” through the voices of people whose lives have been changed by the war. Beneath these cylinders is living grass, serving as a symbol of recovery and the return of life. Each flask contains a separate audio story: from sappers who neutralize explosive objects every day, to farmers restoring their fields, and children returning home. An eleventh cylinder is empty. No grass grows beneath it – there is no life there. It symbolizes Ukrainian land to which access is currently unavailable and which is still waiting to be de-mined. This cylinder holds untold stories that sound different – only the noise of the wind and the rustling of grass. The project was created with the support of UNDP in Ukraine in partnership with the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine, the national platform Demine Ukraine, and with funding from the Ukraine Community Recovery Fund and the Government of the Netherlands.