During his stay in Graz, Andrii Dostliev continued working on the archival photographs of the forced workers (Ostarbeiter) from Eastern Europe in Austria and specifically in Styria, focusing on the messages they were sending each other on the reverse sides of these photographs and on how they were using these photographs as small gestures to support each other.

Andrii Dostliev (b. 1984) is an artist, curator, and photography researcher from Ukraine, currently based in Poland. Has degrees in IT (MA in 2006) and graphic design (BA in 2015). His primary areas of interest are memory, trauma, identity — both personal and collective, and limits of photography as a medium. His art practice works across photography, video, drawing, performance, and installation.