Wedding bouquet
Installation. Five 3D sculpturesHeimat
Video. Music by Olga Anna Markowska2022 - 2024
BY LAW. Collaboration with artist Uladzimir Hramovich. Museum of Emigration / curated by Maksymilian Bochenek, SUPLEMENT project (Gdynia, Poland), 2022
Today, borders have become conflict zones, making emigration difficult. My partner and I, citizens of Belarus, were forced to leave after being detained for protesting in 2020-21. Emigrants face numerous challenges, including costly legalization and obtaining essential documents.
Marriage, often seen as a relic of patriarchal society, reveals its importance in different countries by providing care and emergency access when laws fail. In Belarus, following the protests, there were officially 1,500 political prisoners, though the real number is much higher. Thousands of families must support their incarcerated relatives, often needing to be recognized as family members to provide aid like medicine, clothes, and food.
Marriage offers emigrants similar benefits, allowing them to assist loved ones and provide a semblance of security and stability when they lack full citizenship rights in their home or host countries.
BY LAW reimagines immigrant interior design, featuring a wedding bouquet symbolizing the countries we traversed during our emigration. Borders and nations, often perceived as natural, are shown to be artificial constructs. The accompanying video portrays a couple wrapped in insulating blankets, symbolizing protection and care.
For migrants, documents transcend their administrative purpose, becoming lifelines when homeland and family are absent.
Marriage, often seen as a relic of patriarchal society, reveals its importance in different countries by providing care and emergency access when laws fail. In Belarus, following the protests, there were officially 1,500 political prisoners, though the real number is much higher. Thousands of families must support their incarcerated relatives, often needing to be recognized as family members to provide aid like medicine, clothes, and food.
Marriage offers emigrants similar benefits, allowing them to assist loved ones and provide a semblance of security and stability when they lack full citizenship rights in their home or host countries.
BY LAW reimagines immigrant interior design, featuring a wedding bouquet symbolizing the countries we traversed during our emigration. Borders and nations, often perceived as natural, are shown to be artificial constructs. The accompanying video portrays a couple wrapped in insulating blankets, symbolizing protection and care.
For migrants, documents transcend their administrative purpose, becoming lifelines when homeland and family are absent.
21. SURVIVAL Art Review ERZAC. Fundacja Art Transparent / curators Michał Bieniek, Anna Kołodziejczyk, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, Ewa Pluta, Daniel Brożek (Wroclaw, Poland), 2023
The OTHER SESSION. Docks Cantieri Cucchini. During the 60th Venice Biennale / curated by David Liver and Michael Kaethler (Venice, Italy), 2024Heimat, 2022
The music for this work was composed by the Polish artist and composer Olga Anna Markowska.
The world we live in is one of oppression, war and endless violence - a mass of faceless events that merge into a constant stream of news. This artwork reflects my experience as a volunteer on the Polish-Ukrainian border during the first month of full-scale war in Ukraine. I witnessed people, wrapped in blankets, remaining calm and moving forward despite the uncertainty that lay ahead. It's impossible to compare the suffering. Refugees become silent monuments - without a voice, without a past and without a future.
︎︎︎ The Council of Europe. Let’s celebrate the 70th anniversary of the European Cultural Convention in Venice on 20th April!, 2024
︎︎︎ Segnonline. Contemporary Art Magazine. The Other Session, 2024
︎︎︎ e-flux. RrOMA LEPANTO. European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), 2024
︎︎︎ platformb.art
︎︎︎ Belarusian Council for Culture. Belarusian Art: Redesigning Creativity, 2023
︎︎︎ Archiwum.survival. PRZEZ PRAWO, 2023