"I work with emotions. Strong emotions are very important to me, even emotions that were experienced in childhood and then carried over into adult life. I'm exploring the theme of (self-)defence and unity. About how we, the whole world, have become defenders, about the role of the Baltic States and especially Lithuania, its perception and reflection, empathy. The project is, of course, about ordinary people and about me, about people who were forced to leave their homes and about those who opened themselves to help. I have spent the last year in Lithuania, I am a migrant, a person who reacts even more acutely inside to all the pain that my home country has to feel... and I sum it all up with a visual line. I am like one brick, but brick by brick and you can build a house, you can build a wall." (Anton Kosikov) Anton Kosikov (b. 1989, Rivne, Ukraine) is an interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer, contemporary neo-Fresco painter, also known by the creative pseudonym Hudo. He started drawing at school age after suffering a stroke in order to regain fine motor skills in his hands. He has an incomplete post-secondary education which is not related to artistic creation. He worked in a blacksmith's forge and for six years in a metal factory. Anton's work is inspired by medieval engravings and uses images of strange creatures to critique contemporary consumer society. The exhibition will be on view at the VAA gallery "5 Malūnai" (Naujieji rūmai, Malūnų str. 5, Vilnius) until 15 April.