Exhibit Dates: June 24 – September 1, 2022
Show Place: The Joseph Regenstein Library, 2nd Ground Show Conditions, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL
In May possibly 2020, in the run up to the Belarusian presidential election, protests erupted that continued for 10 months. These protests centered close to opposition to Alexander Lukashenko’s bid for a sixth time period as president and the jailing and maltreatment of opposition figures. The spouse of one particular of these figures, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, registered as a applicant and declared election fraud following Lukahsenko’s declare to have gained with 80% of the vote.
An associated exhibition, Belarus: Faces of Resistance, hosted at Southspace Innovative (1109 E 55th St, Chicago) and sponsored by the College of Chicago’s Middle for East European and Russian/Eurasia Research, explores these situations by means of the function of nine artists, photojournalists, and filmmakers. The Southspace exhibition will open to the community on June 24, 2022.
The two-case show at Regenstein highlights supplies from the University of Chicago Library intended to give additional context. The initially case delivers a brief timeline of protests and demonstrations in Belarus and highlights supplies to give context on the situations leading up to the 2020 demonstrations and of opposition actions in Belarus. The next focuses on the inventive and social context, highlighting artwork-activism, images, and the context for how these demonstrations played out and how opposition proceeds to play out in Belarus by means of creative signifies.
Curator
Megan Browndorf, Slavic and East European Research Librarian, The College of Chicago Library
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