Date:

Since 2018 

Introduction:

A cycle of works about migration and borders, smuggling and breaking down barriers. The cycle began to develop as a reflection on the bureaucratic mechanisms accompanying the artist's immigration process. The cycle also includes various works about borders: the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, military collapse, meat smuggling, and attempts to illegally breach borders. Discussions about the geopolitical crisis in the region made into a separate cycle: Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes.

Canvas Cut
with the Karta Polaka,
2018

Works and events within the cycle:

W73.1--3

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Installations and video-installations

With Paweł Matyszewski

Installation sometimes include video Violation of Biopower Borders

The series of installations created in a duet with Paweł Matyszewski. Automobile doors in which pieces of meat are hidden are not only a direct illustration of the smuggling of meat across the Belarusian-Polish border, but also an image of biopolitical processes (Michel Foucault).

The series tells about political borders, the economic and existential state in the border zones, about the exclusion zones of individuals in the conditions of punitive instruments of power.

Video installation
Smuggling of Biomaterials
(Car Door / Fiat E2-43R-005223),
with Paweł Matyszewski,
2019

W73.1

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Mural
For group exhibition Love Hope Faith. In Honour of, Exhibition Bureau / Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

The mural depicts the Three Sisters mound – a monument erected at the junction of the borders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Until 2013 (the beginning of the conflict in the region in connection with the annexation of the Crimea and the beginning of hostilities in eastern Ukraine), this was a direct symbol of the sisterhood of the three peoples. Borders were opened near the kurgans, annual cultural festivals of three countries were held.

On the image, the barrow is represented as a pie, a third of which is already cut off.

Today the monument is heavily destroyed. In 2019, the Belarusian authorities made another peacekeeping decision to restore it as a symbol of friendship between nations and hope for ending the conflict.

Graphic Friendship Mound
(Three Sisters),
2014

W65--68

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Canvas and installation
For duet exhibition Sergey Shabohin and Paweł Matyszewski: Styk, KH Space, Brest, Belarus

A series of works on the smuggling of meat through the Belarusian-Polish border. The work talks about biopolitics and the mechanisms for creating borders and punitive superstructures.

Video installation
Smuggling of Biomaterials
(Car Door / Fiat E2-43R-005223),
with Paweł Matyszewski,
2019

Video 
Violation of Biopower
Borders,
2017

W62.1--3

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Canvas and installation
For group exhibition PRA___BEL, Galeria Krynki, Krynki, Poland

The cycle Border-Gap began with the work Canvas Cut with the Karta Polaka. The work tells about the bureaucratic difficulties that the artist underwent to obtain the Karta Polaka (Pole's Card) — the first stage for migration to another country. Here are direct references to the works of Lucio Fontana and the book Pinnochio (the plot with a fake fireplace).