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Plan:
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Section number:

# 2

Title:

Cover of History

Tags:
appropriation  censorship of memory  condomization of historical memory  crystal horn Counter-Monumental Queer  cover  deconstruction of memories  embrasure  horizontal slit  narrative shells   palimpsests  queering of monuments  salty broth  sausage in the cemetery  Three Sisters  fight for history    

Processes / slit:
Name of processes:

Censorship // Appropriation

Slit:

Embrasure

Color:
Color number:

#222222

R, G, B:

34, 34, 34


Section plan: 
List of works:
A: video Chronicle of the 'Three Sisters' Monument
B: sculptural object Cover and rift in the form of a shooting range
C: fphotodocument Social Marble: Cover
D: photodiptych ST()RE #17: Glass Horn in Salty Broth
E: collage series Tectonic Plates: Censorship of Memory
F: jagged holes in the wall






A:
Video

Chronicle of the 'Three Sisters' Monument

From the cycles Border-Gap and Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes
Since 2014 (last update in 2023)
13’33”


The video presents the history of the Three Sisters monument, located on the borders of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

The video includes fragments of two other video works from 2023: Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes: Through the Eclipse Corridor and Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes: Dismembered Melancholy (Broken Vinyl)


B:
Sculptural object

Cover

From the cycle Border-Gap
2024


Under the horizontal slit in the form of a shooting gallery there is a model of an installation in public space presenting a monumental sculpture in the form of a condom. The cover is placed near the Monument to the Union of Lublin.

Idea: Sergey Shabohin. 3D modeling and printing: Roman Shabohin

С:
Photo documentation of installations in public spaces

Social Marble: Cover

From the cycles Border-Gap and Social Marble
2021


Photo documentation of the installation – a monumental sculpture in the shape of a condom, deliberately made from cheap plywood and covered with marble-patterned foil, creating the illusion of heaviness. The covering is located near the Union of Lublin Monument and speaks to the processes of rewriting history in Belarus by the authoritarian regime. The marble foil symbolizes the pompous yet impoverished state censorship.

The exhibition presents a black and white version of the photo document

D:
Photodiptych

ST()RE #17: Glass Horn in Salty Broth

From the cycle ST()RE
2023


The diptych documents an action carried out in 2023 at the Dorotheenstädt Cemetery in Berlin, where pieces of meat submerged in pickle brine were placed on the stone gravestone of Bertolt Brecht and the glass slab of Fred Berndt. The queer semiotics of sausage, glass horn, and salty broth here connects eros with thanatos, brutality with delicacy, and seriousness with an "out of place" absurdity.

The exhibition presents black and white versions of the photographs

Е:
Collage series

Tectonic Plates: Censoring Memory

From the cycles Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes and Social Marble 
2021


The series of collages documents spontaneously created monuments in Belarus – installations and actions commemorating the places where Belarusian opposition members died. Authorities continuously fight against these memorials, destroying them, painting over inscriptions on walls, and covering slogans on the asphalt with salt. The collages use foil with a "granite lichen" texture as a symbol of the growing state censorship, aimed not only against dissidents but also against the memory of those who have disappeared or been killed.
F:
Slit

A hole in the form of an embrasure.



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