Maryna Naprushkina, From the series Exercise books, 2021

marker, digital print, paper, 20 x 30 cm signed and dated on the reverse: artist's signature 2021

From the series "Exercise books"/"Exercises" . The work combines views of factories in Belarus from the artist's home archive with slogans of the Belarusian resistance movement and decorative motifs. The decorative refers to anonymous women's labor. In this way, the work combines the historical past with the contemporary history of resistance.

BIOGRAM: Marina Naprushkina (*1981, Minsk) is an artist, feminist and activist.
Her diverse artistic practice includes video, performance, drawings, installations and text. Her works address current political and social issues. Naprushkina focuses on creating new formats, structures and organizations based on self-organization that overlap in theory and practice. 2007 Naprushkina founded the Anti-Propaganda Bureau, and 2013 she launched the Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit initiative.
Naprushkina has participated in the Kiev Biennale (2017), the 7th Berlin Biennale (2011), the 11th Istanbul International Biennale (2009), among others. Her works have been exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien (2020), Tallinn Art Hall (2018), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok (2017), Moderna Gelerija Ljubljana (2012), BAK, Utrecht (2012). Since 2016, he has been teaching at *foundationClass, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee in Berlin.