Artist talk - Between Holocaust and Pandemic on June 25 | Maxim Sarychau

In the artist-talk, visual artist and photojournalist Maxim Sarychau will be presenting 2 photographic projects online. He worked on these projects during his Q21 residence in Vienna in 2020 & 2021.

The series Where Have All the Flowers Gone? was produced in the Spring of 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, it visualizes human fragility and reflects on state control over the circulation of images in the media.
The ongoing project I can almost hear the birds explores the theme of the (in) visibility of the Holocaust in the natural landscape of the former extermination camp Maly Trascianec (Belarus) and the urban space of contemporary cities where Jews lived before deportation to Minsk - Vienna, Berlin, Prague.

Both projects were shown in Belarus in 2021: in Brest at the personal exhibition in the KX Gallery and in a group exhibition Machine breathes, but I don't in Minsk. Both exhibitions lasted 1 day and were closed by the authorities for far-fetched reasons.