White–Red–White poster exhibition opens on 2nd anniversary of rigged presidential election in Belarus
09.08.2022
On 9 August 2022 the Royal Łazienki in Warsaw hosted the vernissage of a poster exhibition which refers to Belarusian society’s efforts to bring about a democratic change
Presented were the works awarded and distinguished during international White–Red–White competition.
Poland consistently supports efforts to build a sovereign, open and stable Belarusian state guided by democratic principles. National Centre for Culture Poland, in cooperation with the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the spirit of solidarity with the Belarusian nation, held an international poster competition titled White–Red–White. Its purpose is to remind the world of the Belarusian nation which struggles for freedom and human rights, and to commemorate the heroes of the 2020 protests.
Almost 250 works were submitted for the contest. Three of them were awarded and fourteen artists received honourable mentions. The winning poster was Kamil Skrzypiec’s Belarus 2020–2022. His piece features a broken chain whose links are the final digits of the years 2020 and 2022. Another remarkable work is the one by a Belarusian artist Evgenia Muzheva titled We Are Not Meat. The female body in the poster is marked to resemble the division of a carcass into primal cuts.
A total of 19 boards on display are dominated by white and red, the colours of the flag which is considered national by Belarusian democratic opposition and émigrés.
The exhibition is open to the public at the Royal Łazienki in Warsaw until 4 September 2022.
