The artist and curator Svitlana Biedarieva and the researcher Hanna Deikun, both of Ukrainian origin and living in Mexico, carried out a broad initiative dedicated to making visible those artistic manifestations in Ukraine that have themed the horizon of war.

The result was the first major program in Latin America on contemporary Ukraine. Entitled At The Front Line. Ukrainian Art 2013-2019 / The front line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019, consisted of an exhibition, panel discussions, performances, and the screening of documentaries; took place between September 25, 2019 and February 26, 2020 in Mexico City and Winnipeg, Canada, thanks to the support of a dozen leading Mexican, Canadian, and Ukrainian institutions, among others.

From this series of meetings with the public and activities carried out around the exhibition, this book takes shape, which serves as an expanded catalog of the works and includes not only their images but also records of the works in the context of the exhibitions. The texts, in turn, accompany and expand the reflections initiated by the artists.

The Exhibition section deals with the work of Piotr Armianovski, Yevgenia Belorusets, Svitlana Biedarieva, from the Platform for Cultural Initiatives “Izolyatsia” (Daniel Buren, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Leandro Erlich), Zhanna Kadyrova, Yuri Koval, Anton Popernyak, Roman Mikhailov, Roman Minin, Olia Mykhailiuk, Lada Nakonechna, Yevgen Nikiforov, Kristina Norman, and Mykola Ridnyi. In Performance we find works by César Martínez Silva and Paola Paz Yee. In addition, synopses of the documentaries and writings of Yevgenia Belorusets, Uilleam Blacker, Oleksandra Gaidai, Olesya Khromeychuk, Ricardo Macías Cardoso, Jean Meyer, Olia Mykhailiuk, Lada Nakonechna, Maryna Rabinovych, Vsevolod Samokhvalov and Mykola Ridnyi are listed.

The set of materials can be read, in this volume, in Spanish, English and Ukrainian.