They will drink from the dew, And be warmed by the sun.

Finding a way to communicate across borders means acknowledging that borders themselves will reshape what is said. They will drink from the dew, And be warmed by the sun. traces a quiet, ongoing exchange between the artist and her two grandmothers—one in Ukraine, one in Russia—who have been sending her photographs of their gardens since February 2022. The war is rarely mentioned. Instead, flowers bloom quietly across the screen: jasmine, peonies, apricot blossoms, lilac… Working primarily with screen printing, Gorokhova embraces the imperfections and inconsistencies of the medium, which mirror the nature of translation—not only between languages, but between generations, geographic distances, and political realities. Each print becomes a fragment of lives lived in parallel, connected by images, memories, and traces of what remains unspoken. Materializing a fragile sense of closeness, they become translations themselves—partial, unstable, and open to new interpretation by the viewer. What fades or misaligns is as significant as what appears clearly. The atrocities of Russia’s war against Ukraine haunt every image that is sent. How can one address such violence without turning it into spectacle? Gorokhova weaves personal memory and inherited silence into a meditation on distance, desire, and representation, drawing on the impossibility of a perfect translation, as well as reflections on longing and incompleteness. Identity itself becomes a shifting construct—performed through language, memory, and what is chosen to be preserved. Isn’t desire also a part of identity—a longing for coherence that eludes us? Aren’t we always falling in love with the idea of where we are going—and isn’t that idea always out of reach?