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Learning to Defeat

Uladzimir Hramovich 2019 – 2021
A series of murals, archive of newspapers and magazines.Archive: Smash Fascist Scum, Vozhyk (from the Belarusian "Hedgehog"), Chernobyl Vozhyk, Vozhyk contemporary state publication, Vozhyk Samizdat

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From the description of the work at the exhibition "ODKSZTAŁCENIE / DEFORMATION / UNLEARNING":

Uladzimir Hramovich sketches a history of Vozhyk – a hedgehog character and protagonist of the satirical publication – from World War II, through cold war era socialism to contemporary Belarus. Originating from the Smash Fascist Scum partisan magazine, Vozhyk inherits a critical and satirical attitude towards society. In postsocialist Belarus, in one of the iterations, it becomes part of the exhausted official visual culture, depoliticized and recreative, in another – obtains environmental awareness (as in Chernobyl Vozhyk), and later becomes one of the mouthpieces of self-organised protests in Belarus in 2020-2021.