OFFSCREEN 2025

As part of OFFSCREEN, from October 21st to 26th, 2025, the Chapelle de la Salpêtrière will host You Shouldn’t Have to See This, the first Parisian presentation of the video installation by Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei that made such a profound impression at the last Venice Biennale, in the PinchukArtCenter exhibition at the Palazzo Polignac. 

Recreated in the same configuration as the one produced for the Kunstverein in Hanover, the work invites viewers into a moment that is both fragile and disturbing: sleeping children filmed in silence. Behind the apparent serenity, the installation evokes a tragedy: these Ukrainian children had been abducted to Russia before being repatriated. This artistic gesture, on the edge between compassion and voyeurism, questions the representation of war crimes and the responsibility of images. As much a political statement as a work of art, You Shouldn’t Have to See This confronts the viewer with an unbearable truth.