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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
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Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.

Entering a dreamlike looking glass world of young Belarusians through the video & installation work of Jura Shust

, 14 June 2021

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.

Jura Shust, Neophyte II (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.

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.”**

Jura Shust’s Neophyte II, was on at Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, presented as part of the Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance group exhibition, running March 25 to May 6, 2021.