"… I am absolutely convinced that without hope for a miracle, life loses its reality, naturalness. Life is panting, wasting away. Instead of her, her disgusting dummy comes to the fore and is overgrown with posters, calls, monuments ... "
Monologue from the film "The Kerosene Man's Wife" (1988)

Different dictatorships give rise to similar times and spaces. Time in them turns into timelessness, the past grows into the present with a rusty fence, the living is displaced by the formal and ritual. How does it feel to live inside a modern dictatorship? How does it feel if you thicken its space to the point of tangibility?

It can happen that you see cranes flickering on the horizon. A light breeze carries their mournful cries. One minute later, no matter how eagerly you look into the blue distance, you do not see anything, not even a dot, and you do not hear any sound. The same way people with their faces and voices are like flashes in your life. They drown in our past, leaving nothing more than feeble traces of memory."

- Anton Chekov

The Soviet era left behind many features: streets, monuments, language, symbols and a conformist man. The artist is immersed in the context of this reality. While working with documentary photos and videos of historical and news nature, a figurative painting about the pseudo-ideals of the communist past is created.

The exhibition features works from the series "The Lost", "Face in Shadow", "Pandemic". The series "The Lost" uses portraits of missing people as material. In Face in Shadow, Anro examines political images through the prism of mythology and visualizes them through figurative painting. The series of graphic works "Pandemic" is based on the pages of the magazine "New World" of the late 80's, it studies the theme of the utopia of the Soviet era and nostalgia for utopia in post-Soviet society.

"Genitive Case" is an international project that brings together 14 authors who touch upon the theme of family and kinship in their artistic expressions. Photographs, videos, installations that make up the exhibition, allow us to explore the reflection, structure, dynamics of the family and "family", as well as see the autobiographical subjectivity, in other words, what is hidden behind the official image of the family in the works of photographers and artists.