pickA look back at the artist's work visiting activists across the former Soviet Union. A reckoning with the pressures and cost of protest against a dictator (Putin). Ultimately, and sadly, an account of disillusionment.
Lomasko escapes a Russian crackdown against protest, and is all but banned from working in "the West" by states that previously took corrupt Russian money.
I spent a few hours at the demonstration. I didn't try to get close to the monument to Aleksandr Pushkin. where people were being violently arrested. Standing in the crowd, watching the beautiful youth who wished for the best, it felt like a swarm of colorful birds had landed on the snow and that there was nothing at all in common between them and the approaching black phalanx of riot police.
In Belarus.
"...Minsk can seem like a sleepy place...
On a street full of half-empty establishments, there's a tiny coffee shop with an incredibly long line out the door. A few days ago, O'Petit had sheltered protesters fleeing the police. One of the officers broke the café's glass door as revenge.
Now people stand in line for up to an hour and a half at a time, just to have a cup of coffee here and leave a generous tip."
The artist documents visits across the former Soviet Union, here in Yerevan.
Previously based in Moscow she is now in exile.
The Last Soviet Artist | 
