Press Release
The Evil of the past weeks speaks for itself; the death and ruines have eliminated humanity. Deprived people from what they think of as fundamental civil structures. The language, explaining the world based on the logic of rationality. How about explaining the world to the world in two words?
This “new” alphabet appeared, not on February 24, 2022, but decades, years and centuries ago. The set of order, based on power and oppression to conquer through rigid structures, abuse and violence, in all its different forms, and toward all living beings.
“Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent”is the sentence that L. Wittgenstein ended his “ractatus Logico-
When The Sun Is Low - The Shadows Are Long
Galeria Arsenal, Bialystock (Poland)
01.04.2022 - 13.05.2022
“Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent”is the sentence that L. Wittgenstein ended his “ractatus Logico-
Being silent is scary.
We are sitting in an archaic cave depicting the shadows on the walls, questioning ourselves whether it’ the sunrise or the sunset.
« We decided not to cancel the exhibition When the Sun Is Low—he Shadows Are Long and to open it on April 1, 2022 at Arsenal Gallery (Bialystok, Poland) and on June 10, 2022 at GFZK (Leipzig, Germany) in solidarity and a deep sorrow for all Ukrainian people, and with beliefs to freedom for Belarus. » Anna Karpenko, curator (Belarus), March 10, 2022
We have been working on the exhibition When the Sun Is Low—he Shadows Are Long for nearly a year, the event intended from day one as a gesture of solidarity with Belarus in her struggle for freedom and democracy. Caused and incited by Russia’ attack on Ukraine, the current war is proof of under how much threat these values are today. —onika Szewczyk, Director, Arsenal Gallery in Białystok
Belarussian philosopher Ihar Babkou dubbed Belarus the “ingdom of Ruins”in reference to a history of abandonment and orphanhood, coupled with an extraordinary wealth of this place that the media often calls the “erra incognita.”“uins”delineate the boundaries of every civilisation’ repatriation to “ature.”Shadows of the past become the harbinger of our attempts to interpret, visualise, and embrace a trace of times haunted by absence and persecution. The longer the shadows, the less our chance of discovering the truth about the objects that cast them.
« The exhibition When The Sun Is Low—he Shadows Are Long offers a view of a historical and contemporary context of Belarussian art, revealing intricate interconnections between the deep archaic nature of human beings in social, political and cultural dimensions, and a timorous desire to break the vicious cycle of repressive regimes and their systems. » Anna Karpenko, Curator
Artists: Alexander Adamov, Irina Anufrieva, Bazinato, Evelina Domnitch/Dmitry Gelfand, Jazep Drazdovič, Zhanna Gladko, Jan Helda , Siarhei Hudzilin, Zahar Kudin, Siarhiej Leskiec, Masha Maroz, Aliona Pazdniakova, Anton Sarokin, Ala Savashevich, Olga Sazykina, Sergey Shabohin, Jura Shust, Anna Sokolova, Władysław Strzemiński, Masha Svyatogor
Project by Arsenal Gallery in Białystok ; GfZK—useum of Contemporary Art Leipzig ; Goethe-
Design: Anna Nałęcka-
Exhibition 01 April -
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