The "process" has begun

From March 26 to April 5, from 21.00 to 19.00, the FLACON Design Factory (B. Novodmitrovskaya 36/4) will host the “Trial” exhibition dedicated to the court hearings in the second case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the Khamovnichesky Court.

The “Process” exhibition at the FLACON Design Factory is a reconstruction. The artist does not reconstruct the events of the second trial of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev,

but the very way Russian justice functions, the atmosphere of what is happening.

The viscosity, melancholy and absurdity of the judicial procedure were recorded by literary geniuses - Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky. But quite serious consequences follow from seemingly senseless events. Those who pursue Kafka's hero Josef K. have a goal. And they achieve it. The system lives according to the laws of its own logic, which is not always understandable to outsiders. Mikhail Khodorkovsky wrote about this in his article “Legalized” violence.”

When the word “process” is heard in Russia today, two names immediately come to mind: Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. That is why the documentary basis for the exhibition was the chronicle of the process, reflected in the comics of the artist Alexander Kotlyarov, which were published weekly on the website of the Daily Journal.

Artist Alexander Kotlyarov and exhibition curator Anton Litvin created a multimedia installation where the heroes were not specific characters, but images of participants in the process - Judge, Prosecutors, Lawyers, Witnesses, Defendants. The viewer finds himself in the space of a strange and powerful ritual, which least of all resembles a legal act.