Artists from Poland, Belarus and Macao were invited to participate in the exhibition. Most of the works were created especially for the exhibition. Olga Anna Markowska, originally from Podlasie, focuses on the topic of the relationship between man and the forest, including reworking of Belarusian folk songs dedicated to nature. Katarzyna Sienkiewicz, who belongs to the Belarusian minority in Poland, reveals her family's history related to weaving and Belarusian culture. Macao-born Kate Ngan Wa Ao talks about a special way of seeing history from territories located "on the collision course" of different, often violent, forces and cultures. A feature that unites Belarus and Macau. Rosalina Bussel is the author of a poetic installation that combines the key attributes of human life and death and in which the connection between individual themes of the VEHA archive can be traced. The work of the artist and founder of the VEHA archive, Lesya Pcholka, unites the themes of all sections of the archive. They refer to complex, often contradictory elements characteristic of Belarusian culture, which cannot be reduced to a monolithic set of national signs and symbols.

The title of the exhibition "Let it shine" is taken from a passage of the poem "Zhyt" by Larissa Geniyush (1910–1983), a Belarusian émigré poet and politician who lived in the time that most of the photographs in the VEHA archive depict. Her understanding of life is imbued with the simplest questions: belonging to the land, forests, gardens, the connection between generations, memory, home, and faith in a better tomorrow. These are themes that are often found in private family collections depicting individual stories. Collected in a large collection like the VEHA archive, they form the history of the country. This story appears in the version of ordinary people, devoid of grand narratives, famous names and dates that are celebrated everywhere. It allows to preserve in detail the manifestations of the local natural and cultural environment by representing the most universal elements of human life.