Among us/ Среди нас







This image is a document of the time: a trace from the explosion of a flash-bang grenade, which was actively used by the police forces in Minsk during the first nights after the elections on 9-12 August. The trace left on the tiles next to the “Minsk Hero City” Stele and The New Great Patriotic War Museum warms up the place of memory. Spacious Minsk avenues are used both for official ceremonial parades and as places of protest and rebellion: dark nights of violence and days of peaceful manifestation of dissent.

Gleb deforms the fact - he traces the explosion with chalk, recreating the contour of Belarus' modern borders. This performative gesture transforms the mark of the explosion into an almost literal statement: Belarus under Lukashenko is closed by prison cells, and overwhelmed by cops' violence: torture and bullying.

What kind of "explosive" wave should be enough to shake this regime?