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Metamorphoses of Lenin

For me, Lenin is a dictator and murderer who initiated an occupation of my country in 1917-1921. From that time until 1991, Ukraine wasn't free. Even now, like numerous soviet-era propagandistic portraits of Lenin, the ghost of a monster country called the USSR is still here. Lenin's successor from the Kremlin tries to destroy an independent Ukraine and pull it into Moscow's deadly hug. In my art project, I try to overcome the traumatic historical experience of my country by transforming the sinister shards of USSR into something funny and not scary. I try to show that we can defeat even the strongest evil. But even in a case of a win, we must be alert to prevent the enemy from rising again.

Oleksandr Balbyshev

118 Artworks curated by Oleksandr Balbyshev

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