A woman reacts as she attends a funeral ceremony for Mykola Kuliba and Serhiy Baula, servicemen from the “Aydar” battalion, who were killed in the fighting in eastern Ukraine, at Independence Square in central Kiev, Ukraine, May 26, 2016. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

Ukrainian service man Oleksandr of 24th brigade stands guard at his position in the trenches at the frontline, amid Russia?s attack on Ukraine near Niu York, Donetsk region, Ukraine on April 4, 2023. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Police detain demonstrators during an action against Russia's attack on Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, February 28, 2022. Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine resumed on Monday, with people taking to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg and other Russian towns despite mass arrests. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

A cat meows in it's owner's bag after fleeing from Kiev in Ukraine to Romania, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, March 10, 2022. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)

A service member of the 110th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a front line in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine on June 16, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Pilots plan a flight manoeuvre with model aircraft at a military air base in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, August 3, 2016. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

A woman runs across the street next to an anti-tank constructions in central Kyiv, Ukraine on March 10, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

From a height of three meters, porcelain figurines are dropped on the ground, and the sound they make when they hit trips the shutter release. The result: razor-sharp images of disturbing beauty—temporary sculptures made visible to the human eye by high-speed photography technology. The porcelain statuette bursting into pieces isn't what really captures the attention; the fascination lies in the genesis of a dynamic figure that replaces the static pose. In contrast to the inertness of the intact kitsch figurines Klimas started out with, the photographs of their destruction possess a powerfully narrative character.