Вещдок / Weschdok

October 1-3

The watercolor series “Weschdok” (2017, DE: “Material Evidence”) is based on the research of Alexander Kondakov “Hate Crimes against LGBTIQ* People in Russia”. The works from this series were used as illustrations in the book. “Weschdok” represents the prints of the objects that were used in these hate crimes.
Part of the Red Square Festival. An exhibition organized by Quarteera e.V. with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Polina Zaslavskaya is a queer feminist artist born in 1984 and living in St. Petersburg. In 2015 she founded a queer-feminist artist group “Unwanted Organization”. Personal exhibitions: “Weschdok” (2017, 2018); “Utensils.365” (2015). Curator of the exhibition “Kinship Rituals” (Masha Godovannaya, Polina Zaslavskaya, 2019). Group exhibitions and festivals: “Alogorrhea” (Prague 2018), “Zoopsychosis” (St-Petersburg, 2016), “Laboratory of Theoretical Mucus” (St-Petersburg, 2016), Public Program of Manifesto 10 (St-Petersburg 2014), International Festival “MediaUdar” (Moscow, 2014), the festival Kvir_Feminist_Actzia (Vienna, 2014), “Feminist Art Criticism” (Minsk, 2015).