meanwhile, in their gallery in kyiv , preparations were underway for the february 25 opening of the exhibition with bombed-out works by oleksiy sai. no one expected that they would have to hide from the bombs. and when the war started, instead of opening, we invited friends, artists, our team. they are at their worst of events in kyiv, when it was very cold, they stayed in our gallery, some even for a month and a half, like a bomb storage. the voloshyns themselves, after long discussions, decided it was time to open a second gallery, but already in the usa. well, while we were living here, we realized that we needed to work, continue our program and support our artists, that we still needed a space, a place where we could show our... projects. there was no such place in new york and los angeles, so they settled on miami. this is the district of alapata, now it is such, one might say, an artaion, and important institutions such as the ruble museum and the superbulb are located here. also, on our street , where the gallery is, there are three more galleries, hardly, that is, four galleries in a