We have a pleasure to invite you to the last zusa event in 2024 and first presentation of the art book by Lesia Pcholka “Descent into the marsh”.
Throughout 2024 Lesia Pcholka was working on her artistic research dedicated to protest movements in Hong Kong (2019-2020) and in Belarus (2020-2021). The project has a closure, and the same time opens in the form of a never-ending visual archive “Descent into the marsh”. In her book, Pcholka gives space for the voices of others and creates a platform for collaboration in continuing the archive.
As Lesia Pcholka speaks about her project:
„Archives in Belarus are highly unstable: social media spaces are controlled, most independent Belarusian media websites are blocked, and all news posted on their sites disappear. We remember fragments, but we cannot find a source that describes the details. Symbols, slogans, gestures, colours—something will appear in this book. Articles about the protest that once appeared on the Facebook feed will have their own place on these pages. This book serves as a visual document of the protest movements in Hong Kong from 2019 to 2020 and in Belarus from 2020 to 2021. It’s a work in progress. New links will appear in the form of stickers, and the ones here may become obsolete. Because in 2024 nothing ended. In this book, I combine photos I took in Belarus in 2020a country I cannot yet return to—and photos from 2024 in Hong Kong, a place I could visit to find empty streets and an everyday life that bears only faint traces of the protest movement.”
The launch of the book will be accompanied by the talk between Lesia Pcholka and Emilie Choi author of the project “Visualizing Resistance: The Lingering Traces of Hong Kong’s Protest”. Lesia and Emilie will share their reflections and observations of Hong Kong and the story how they met.
Please, join us on Wednesday (18.12.2024) at 6 PM in Lichtenberg (location to be announced after the registration). To get more details please, register here
Design of the book: Karolina Pietrzyk and Tobias Wenig
Editor: Black Seeds in Hong Kong
The project was supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin
