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20-10-2023

The works of Galina Konopatskaya took part of the group exhibition
"As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories"
Haus Der culturen der Welt, Berlin.

The exhibition and research project foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes-the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia--that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.
AS THOUGH WE HID THE SUN IN A SEA OF STORIES presents a non-totalizing vision by way of summoning multiple forms of subjectivities, imaginations, and sensualities that were dimmed by colonization and later fell out of the modernist canon.

The project was funded by the Haupstadtkulturfonds and conceived in collaboration with the artists, curators and writers laroslav Volovod, Nikolay Karabinovych, Saodat Ismailova, and Kimberly St. Julien Varnon.