[oberlist] Euromaidan - occupied spaces. Exhibition opening in Berlin

[Yevgenia Belorusets]

Euromaidan - occupied spaces

photographic exhibition by Yevgenia Belorusets



OKK Gallery, 29 Prinzenallee, Berlin

*Exhibition opening: 19.00, 31st January, 2014*



31.1.-20.2., Thursd.-Sund.15 - 19 Uhr



"Euromaidan - occupied spaces" is collection of photographs depicting
everyday life at the epicentre of a mass protest, focussing on the
Euromaidan protest in Kiev, Ukraine.

News from Ukraine, including the passing of new laws aimed at crushing any
form of protest or freedom of speech, is getting worse day by day.



Euromaidan is a unified protest containing multiple, often contradictory
beliefs: dreams of a just Europe, formed outside the EU's borders;
Far-Right, ultra-nationalist values; hatred of the current system of
governance and naming of 'enemies'; demands for radical, democratic
transformation - all these meet in one protest space and try to coexist.


Yevgenia Belorusets' photos show people spending night after night standing
in protest on freezing streets, sleeping in occupied government buildings.
In the darkness of this night, they can come under attack from riot police,
and must stand shoulder to shoulder to defend the hard-won main square of
the city from the State. Winter's day is also spent on this square, or
warming up in underpasses and cafes.

Scenes of highly unstable life in Ukraine today, transported into the
sheltered European reality of an exhibition space in Berlin, remind us of
the necessity of refreshing our definitions of our political goals. Fascism
can grow fast in such situations. But at the same time, in this case, the
State is turning into a dictatorship.


Belorusets' photographs talk about the existence and the blurring of
borders, but also about solidarity, and its ability to overcome these
borders.



Yevgenia Belorusets is an artist, social activist and author from Kiev,
Ukraine (www.belorusets.com).


OKK Gallery (Organ Kritischer Kunst) is a platform for cultural activism
and critical art and is located in Berlin, Germany. www.*kritische*-*kunst*
.org/
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