The show at the Lescer Art Centre is in dialogue with an exhibition organized and opened on the same day by Oleksandra Pogrebnyak in her Kyiv apartment, marking the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on the experience of plants, the exhibition focuses on the impossibility of detaching ourselves from the place to which we are bound by geographical circumstances – usually quite by accident since we cannot choose the location where we are born or our nationality. Meanwhile, these two elements largely determine our lives and place boundaries – geographical, physical, and mental, often difficult to cross and unfairly deployed. The dramatic stories of refugees and refugee women from Ukraine, as well as from Middle Eastern and African countries, trying to enter Poland through the border with Belarus are juxtaposed with the experience of the exhibition’s curator and her battle with visa procedures. Scrub, Groves, Thickets, and Shrubs is an exhibition about borders – their crossing or the impossibility of crossing them, movement of one’s own volition, or that forced. The vernissage included Philipp Kohlhöfer’s film Culture War premiere about Ukrainian artists during the war and a meeting with the director.