100 Seiten, Text und Foto: Marina Naprushkina
Texte in Russisch und Deutsch
Für die Übersetzung ins Deutsche bedanke ich mich bei Thomas Weiler.
berlin 2020, naprushkina_books
Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit, Closed to the Public
Bild und Text: Marina Naprushkina
Vorwort: Agnieszka Kilian
Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit- Bücher
Gefördert durch die Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa: Bezirkskulturfonds
127 Seiten ISBN 9783948030094
e-book:
PDF / epub
Closed to the Public is the culmination of the project Refugees’ Library.
Refugees’ Library is an archive of drawings and texts produced by Marina Naprushkina between 2013 and 2019 in the courtrooms of the Berlin Administrative Court in Moabit.
Naprushkina attended asylum hearings, documented them artistically, and made the material freely available. The individuals’ names and other personal details have been changed to protect their confidentiality. Freelance translators translated the texts into a variety of languages, enabling the refugees to use the material themselves. Six court hearings with female appellants were selected for the book. It is in German and English, with individual court transcripts translated into Arabic, Persian, and Russian.
Refugees’ Library has been shown in numerous international exhibitions. It is an archive on topics of migration, asylum law, and society.
Situation in Belarus after “the convincing victory”: second issue of the comics newspaper.
The 12 pages of the continued political comics illustrate how the situation unwound in Belarus after the presidential elections in December 2010. All the latest developments – i.e. political repressions, balance-of-payments and economic crises, a bomb attack in Minsk subway, etc. – are described from two viewpoints: the first one shows how they are interpreted by the state propaganda machine, the other presents information taken from independent mass media and blogs.
The second issue of the graphic novel “The Convincing Victory: two stories on what really happened” was designed with help of Joshua Rowe, Gulnara Nasyrova, Olga Kopenkina and Tobias Weihmann.
The 16-page newspaper-size novel illustrates the events which happened in Belarus
during 2010 Presidential Elections. This is a story about the elections and, in particular,
of the day and night of December 19th, when the citizens’ peaceful demonstration against
falsified elections was brutally suppressed by the police. The novel presents two views
on the developments in parallel. The first one shows how the events are interpreted by
the state regime and currently widely publicized by state-run newspapers and television.
The other version was assembled from information presented by independent media, which for the most part can exist only in the Internet, i.e. blogs, oppositional websites, users’ comments, testimonies of victims and political activists.