YVES LACROIX
Nowhere is Everywhere

February 24, 2022, Russia launches a military offensive against Ukraine, attempting to invade it.
Thousands of Ukrainians are leaving their country in search of a land of asylum. France is one of them.
July 2022, I leave Paris to settle in Nice. At the same time, a Ukrainian family fleeing the war moved in on the apartment opposite to mine, my new neighbors. This meeting touched me by directly confronting me with the condition of these people, forced to flee their country, their loved ones, their roots, their daily life.
“Nowhere Is Everywhere” presents refugees, men, women, children who, for the most part, have lost everything, left everything behind, some will probably never see their native country again.
Torn from their world, exiled, they must rebuild themselves in a place that they do not know, that they often have not even chosen, learn again, find new benchmarks. Language, work, administration, so many challenges, so many new sources of anxiety and isolation.
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