Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy: the Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes

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Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy: the Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes

For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing projectIn a room inside a Liverpool gallery, Saskia Pay, a young British actor dressed in studiedly ordinary jeans and top, is sitting on a chair in front of a camera. The guy with the camera, Ukrainian artist Andrii Dostliev, briefs a trio of other women, al…