Victora Lomasko at Santa Giulia Museum

The Last Soviet Artist, Brescia, Italy

The exhibition, presented as part of Brescia’s Festival della Pace is the third instalment of the research programme undertaken by Fondazione Brescia Musei under the curatorship of Elettra Stamboulis: a project which initiated in 2019 with the Zehra Doğan’s show We will also have better days. Works from Turkish Prisons, and continued in 2021 with Badiucao’s La Cina non è vicina. Opere di un artista dissidente (China is not near. Works by a dissident artist).

Victoria Lomasko’s exhibition sets out to present a comprehensive overview of the Russian artist’s production with a site-specific display. In fact, Lomasko spent a period in residence in Brescia in order to create site-specific works dedicated to what she has been experiencing and observing in recent months. Lomasko’s artistic research offers a detailed reconstruction of Russia’s social and political history from 2011 to the present day: from the anti-Putin demonstrations that the artist drew from life with her original and recognisable style, to the representations of “deep Russia”, the country of the destitute and marginalised, a subject that has always been among her favourites.