Folklore of the rally

Folklore of the Snow Revolution. In the Great Hall of the Artplay Design Center collected and showed slogans, posters and artifacts from the protest rallies of this winter. The exhibition “You can't even imagine” has been working for less than a week, but The New Times managed to visit it

The unsuccessful, however, is also not worth worrying - everything is on the Internet and often, in detail and in the faces was quoted in different publications and diverged in photographs on blogs and social networks. “E -em, Du-weat: Pu-Tin, ui-di!”, “The wizard is not a place in the cyc”, “Spring will come!” (At the exhibition, the poster hangs on the window glass against the backdrop of bare trees and snow), “Golikova, Arbidol will not help, the diamonds will not save” and others. We ourselves saw them in the original, and someone held them in our hands, retold their content to friends, and later in the photographs they celebrated their trajectory “on Bolotnaya”, “on Sakharov” and again “on Bolotnaya”: yes, I was here, next to this poster, and then went there, to that dude with an iPad with changing slogans at the exhibition, by the way, by the way, by the way. It was not - apparently, the owner did not give it).

The organizers of the exhibition - the OpenSpace portal - were looking for exhibits over the Internet. “Unfortunately, we cannot use their museum safety one hundred percent, although we will try very hard,” the announcement said. The works brought by the authors occupied two floors of the large hall, including the staircase. Signs on the sheets of office paper attached to staircase railing turned out to be a very successful element of design, continuing and emphasizing the rhythm of the steps. Colorful cloths stretched along the ceilings: Blue - “A strong society does not need a leader”, brown - “Brayvik! They are waiting for you on Seliger ”(a joke is actually so-so), red-“ you can’t even imagine us ”and the response lilac“ we represent ourselves ”-compiled a wall ensemble of modern political panels. A pair of road signs, which indicate the settlements: “Putin” and crossed out by the red line “Hope” - decorated a low white battery. In a word, at the exhibition in the center of design it became clear: if the revolution does not happen, the posters will not disappear. At the very least, they will find a place on the farm.

However, the exposition itself, despite the fact that it is composed entirely of the famous jokes, for some reason does not have fun. On the contrary, wandering almost alone in these realistic decorations of winter protests, you feel like on the film set of a grandiose (at least in scale of mass scenes), but an already shot historical film. The workers are about to clear the space and the cleaning lady with the mop to tear off the gum from the floor. There are a lot of puns, hints and words around, but, carefully re-reading them, for some reason you do not find several simple and most important ones. Unless "Spring will come!" - By the end of February, this seems almost feasible.