The illustration series Father’s War seeks to trace the relationship between personal memory and national narrative, asking why this particular family story was never integrated into the grand spectacle of state-sanctioned remembrance: parades, monuments, and official commemorations.

Access to familial memory is mediated through modest artifacts: photographs of the artist’s father during his military service and a certificate bearing spelling errors in his patronymic. They reveal overlooked dimensions of wartime experience, daily routines, leisure, and camaraderie among soldiers.

The artist’s father served at the Brest Fortress before the construction of its memorial complex and its transformation into a symbol of Soviet heroism.