On Wednesday, March 5 at 6 pm, our current AIR_Frankfurt guest artist Sasha Velichko will talk about her artistic practice and her project ideas. 
 

Sasha Velichko is an Belarusian artist researching political themes, post-truth, propaganda, trauma and especially traumatic experiences. With a master degree in radiophysics, she applies her scientific background to her artistic practice, creating works that fuse technology and art.

"She does not catalogue simple frames from demonstrations that echo the horror of the Belarusian dictatorship, but processes the stories of detention, creating a personal register that brings out the almost Gogolian grotesqueness of events related to persecution for using the country's former national colours. She does not photograph the detainees, but creates her own equivalent of the situation. Each is accompanied by a description and a collage of images created with artificial intelligence, which create a ghostly panopticum of enslavement. Sasha Velichko uses the tools of photography very consciously, while at the same time creating her own original language that elevates reality to the status of great artistry." (Text by Krytyka Polityczna, translated to English).