Artist: Censorship has become the norm in Ukraine
Censorship has become the norm of Ukrainian life. Photographer, artist, publicist Evgenia Belorusets stated this in an interview with the weekly “Mirror of the Week”.
She commented on the scandal surrounding the exhibition "The Holiday Is Cancelled," when the Pavlo Tychyna Museum refused to display David Chichkan's painting "Delegation of Power," citing its potential to provoke right-wing extremists. They had previously vandalized the artist's exhibition, which criticized decommunization.
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“No threats were made towards the museum, no pressure was put on the museum. The museum made this decision without any external reason, simply on a whim, out of fear that something might not work out,” said Belorusets.
She believes that in Ukraine “a certain system of coordinates has been destroyed, in which censorship is unacceptable”
“After this incident, public opinion was divided, and we heard constant indignant remarks “in defense of the museum.” As if the museum urgently needed to be saved. But from what, from our attempts to make an exhibition? Society seems to be denying itself the opportunity to deal with the phenomenon of censorship, to abandon it, and is directing its anger at those statements that provoke it,” said Belorusets.
On February 7, 2017, more than a dozen people broke into the premises of the Center for Visual Culture, injured a security guard, destroyed the Chichkan exhibition and stole four works.
Artist : Censorship has become the norm in Ukraine