Neophyte II, a work by Jura Shust, was presented as part of the Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance group exhibition at Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, running March 25 to May 6.
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With video and installation creating an immersive and dreamlike forest environment, the work’s narrative follows a group of young Belarusians entering a weirded alternate reality, exhibited during a time of political unrest in Belarus, alongside wider global uncertainty with the pandemic.
As noted by the artist: “It is a looking-glass world – time here moves in a loop, the past and the future are united, and each sound echoes over the tree crowns to get back to the throat that produced it.”**