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.
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.”**