Patience is over. Warning on a transformer booth

In St. Petersburg at the address: Liteiny Prospekt, 37–39, the work of the art group "Yav" "Patience" appeared. The leader of the group Anastasia Vladychkina told the correspondent of the North. Reali why the art group announced this work right now.

The image on the yellow transformer booth in the courtyard on Litein Prospekt is very concise - it is called "patience", and at first glance it is clear that patience is almost at zero. It turns out that the work was invented in May last year, but its performance was postponed.

“We decided to make it exactly when our patience will really be close to zero. And this moment has come,” the Facebook art group said on the page .

We conceived a triptych about Russia, about its political realities

- Our last works are an “apple?” And the "fairy tale" - about the political situation in Russia and Belarus. We conceived a triptych about Russia, about its political realities. We wanted to reflect these realities, our thoughts about them and our vision of the future. The first work is “Fairy Tale”, there Russia and her sister Belarus are captured by Koshchei, but Belarus fled, and Koschey sends tanks and planes to be returned to her, ”explains the leader of the Yav group, Anastasia Vladychkin .

The second work of our Triptich is called “Apple?”, There is no Belarus there, it has already broken out and therefore behind the scenes, and Koschey offers Russia a choice: either she will eat a poisoned apple, or fall from the cliff.

And the third "fairy tale" we were just about to draw. But still, we made "patience" to show that we no longer have it. We came up with this work in May, but then we still had enough patience. But the last events with Navalny, all this farce, which began, these interrogations of schoolchildren, these blocking of accounts in social networks ... In short, our patience is over, and we did this work right now - it waited for her time.

In the post devoted to this graffiti, its authors explain that they are terribly tired of what they see around: “The meager salaries of teachers and doctors, small pensions, a disgusting level of medicine, terrible education, the impossibility of normal businesses, unqualified personnel on state strata, corruption, state persecution of active, smart passenants, eternal attempts to all and all and all and all To ban, insignificant financing of science, the destruction of Roscosmos and the Pulkovo Observatory. "

“This is a conceptually important component, we really ended with patience, so we even broke our“ fairy tale ”, did not finish our triptych, although there is already a plan,” explains Anastasia Vladychkina.

- And this plan will not change in connection with the latest events - with the same arrest of Navalny, his film about Putin’s palace, law enforcement officers?

- I will not disclose the content of this work, but in fact - yes, the plan can change. This can be affected by how the day of January 23 and all the next days will pass. If something changes at this time, maybe we will not do what we have planned.

Yesterday, the police interrogated a schoolboy for four hours about replacing Putin’s photo in Navalny’s photo. This is not normal, it shouldn't be

“How accurately the coin sang“ Wherever you spit, wherever you look, a continuous state. ”Yesterday, instead of engaged in real criminals, the police interrogated the schoolboy for four hours about the replacement of Putin’s photo in the photo of Navalny. This is not normal. It should not be. Our patience is almost at zero, and yours?” - So the post dedicated to the work “Patience” ends.

The art group "Yav" appeared in December 2015, now there are three people in it.

“We have never been especially a lot, but our founders never left the group, and the number three - apparently, is always present for us,” says Vladychkina. - In addition to me, in the group, Alexander Voronin, the only person in the history of “Yavi”, has a person who has a professional art education - he graduated from the Stieglits Academy, studied for six years at the Faculty of Design. And we have another girl - Stasia Dosmanova, she is a builder. And I am a lawyer - a master of law, studied at the Higher School of Economics.

- Are you friends or meet only for business?

- We have good partnerships, I say not because we do not want to spend their free time with each other - we just have no free time. I devote all my time to "show."

- What does it mean? After all, your work does not appear so often, once every few months.

We are looking for a suitable wall, this is also a very complex process, for example, we searched for a wall for a “fairy tale” for three weeks

-The process of creating work is complex-first an idea arises in my head, then we discuss it together, then someone throws the layout, and we will discuss and convert it a hundred times. Then we are looking for a suitable wall, this is also a very complex process, for example, we searched for a wall for a “fairy tale” for three weeks. Then there is a purchase of the necessary materials, then the work itself, and then the so -called post -production: you need to post a release, photos, send all this to the interested media, respond to comments, track all this. Usually we have work more often than once every few months, earlier we did more often. It’s just that this year we have a lot of time going to the Ar Hunter application, this is my third -party project, but also related to “reality”. In it, we restore the destroyed street art in augmented reality.

- Why do you call "reality"?

- Honestly, I don’t remember anymore. I remember we sat for six hours, we had a brain storm-we offered the names, but if someone did not like them alone, we discarded them. But everyone liked the "reality". The message was such that we want to ask people questions without imposing our opinion. "Reality" is a reality: not true, not lies, not fiction, not someone's subjective opinion. But still, we did not succeed as we wanted-since we are artists, we have everything subjective.

- And who are your enemies? Public utilities who paint over your work? Police who delay you?

Recently, for some reason, we are lucky with the police

- No, public utilities are not enemies, they just do their job, for which they receive money, they do not make a decision. Everything is also difficult with the police - the last time they took us, they did it very reluctantly - only if the applicants go to the department to write a statement with us, they said to them: either you are traveling with us, or we let the guys go. In general, recently, for some reason, we are lucky with the police. They fit and ask what we are doing here, we say: draw, they say: well done! And leave. And in December we were brought to the department, and we simply wrote an explanatory, and the whole department was surprised that we were delivered there, they just could not help but respond to a complaint. We painted this on an abandoned building on the Peterhof highway, and a state organization was passing by, in whose was this abandoned building, and he decided that we were spoiling it, although there was nothing to spoil there. It is difficult to single out specific enemies - rather, these are officials who sit and do not want to change the current legislation, to simplify the coordination of street drawings. If we had a non-overwhelming number of deputies from United Russia in the Legislative Assembly, and representatives of the opposition, I think that the law that has been trying to adopt for four years would have been adopted a long time ago. There is a permanent farce by officials-talking about street art and painting it, but no changes are happening.

- Wateful caring citizens do not get you?

-There is a portal " Our St. Petersburg ", where anyone can complain about anything-yes, those who, in principle, were complained of our work against drawing on the street.

- Through graffiti, do you express only your political views?

We have three areas: politics, social topics and science

- We express what is important to us. Now the events around Navalny are important to us. Last year, it was important for us in March to express our solidarity with the feministic agenda, and we painted three women ruler on the facade. I personally important with cosmos and natural sciences, and we have a lot of works that popularize the study of space, physics and mathematics. That is, we have three areas: politics, social topics and science.

- And what are your political work most famous?

- Well, for example, the work "Table of values", and we also painted Sakharov, we had the work "female power". Well, and, of course, the work " Swan Lake ", made in 2018 to the inauguration of Putin. All this can be found on Instagram .