So Far, Yet So Close
1 mei – 21 mei 2022
Vika Mitrichenko, Lena Davidovich, Tasha Arlova, Hanna Aksionava, Masha Maroz, Anna Sokolova, Maria Komarova & Sviatlana Silich
Every day we wake up and look at the news, and sometimes you can feel paralysed and silenced in the face of evil and terror. But despite all circumstances we chose to raise my voice and say out loud ‘No!’- no to the war, no to the oppression, no to the death
Lena Davidovich, artist & initiator of the exhibition
Image: Anna Sokolova, White – Red – White (Film still)
This exhibition is part of So Far, Yet So Close: A day-long program of talks, film, and art about the war in Ukraine, activism and the fight against authoritarianism from a Belarusian perspective.
Festival programme
Belarus 2020. A wave of protests spreads across the country after the rigged presidential election. The repressions are terrifying. A film from a Belarusian director living in Poland.
The war in Ukraine has made it abundantly clear that we’ve not been listening enough to states bordering on Russia. Whether from the Baltic area or from the Caucasus, from Belarus or from Kazakhstan, everyone’s asking: who’s next? In this program, we will discuss with (former) reporters in post-Soviet states what it means to live
It’s been three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the future is still unclear. In this program, we will discuss how Europe should react. How has the European political infrastructure held up to war so close to its territories? What’s the importance of independence of gas? Where should Europe stand on providing weaponry and diplomacy? How