Dictatorland

Dictatorland is a series of sculptural works that gives form to what authoritarianism does to the body, the voice, and the memory. Drawing on personal experience of displacement and the particular silence of exile, the works move between mourning and resistance - never fully settling in either.

Glotal Loop reworks a Soviet-era sink with chains, a rotating motor, and sound. The object becomes a vessel for a lament that never fully arrives - a voice held back, a grief that circulates without release.

Cradle for Coils continues this thread in aluminum and volcanic stone — fragile and resistant at once. Made after the artist publicly spoke out against Lukashenko and accepted she could no longer return, it holds the tension between the necessity of speaking and the fear of what that speech costs those left behind.

FWU references the 2020 Belarusian protests, when women carried flowers into the streets against violence. These gestures - beautiful and doomed - are reimagined here as objects suspended between mourning and transformation. Dried flowers accompany the work as fragile, persistent memory. The piece also draws on the language of BDSM - systems of control, submission, and resistance - linking collective dominance to personal agency.

Ametista Axis emerges from the same moment: thousands of women, flowers, brutal repression. The work holds the trauma of collective hope that was crushed - and refuses to let it disappear.

Soft Entry Simulation takes the form of hopscotch drawn directly on the floor in transparent tape. Playful and almost invisible, it traces the barely perceptible slide from a semi-democratic country into dictatorship.