OFFICIAL. UNOFFICIAL. BELARUS.

By questioning the forms through which art survives and resists under repression and surveillance, the project gives voice to artists in Belarus who risk exile, clandestinity, or imprisonment. In the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, the installation brings together site-specific paintings that subvert altarpieces, a sphere made of compressed banned books, sculptures made of  prison bars, and a cross built entirely from CCTV cameras. In the nearby cemetery visitors can see testimonies of recently released political prisoners immersed in a soundscape for organ which alternates crescendos and reverberating silences.