12 Nov 2024 - 31 Jan 2025

Katya Ruskevich

During her residency, Katya Ruskevich is working on a book. It is an architectural guide to monumental painting in Belarus 1961-1991 for DOM Publisher
The situation with the monumental art and architectural heritage of modernism is changing. It is becoming clear that what was created at that time had value. Unfortunately, the opposite is happening in Belarus. That is why it is so important to fix and attribute the works. On the one hand, monumental painting was part of the planned economy; on the other hand, it remained the most free official art. As is so often the case, the study of one subject intersects with many related fields: planned economy, ideology, urban planning.

Katya will also work on the perception of space and how it changes when moving to a new city or country. What if you have to move several times a year and each new place becomes a new home, because you cannot return to your home? Time is often represented as something sequential or linear, but in subjective perception it is not.