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Our museum presents the exhibition Fear and Laughter, dedicated to Lithuanian-South Caucasian post-punk meta-mesamodernism. The exhibition features works by the Belarusian artist Zmicier Zhalnou, who currently lives and works in Georgia. In his artistic practice, Zhalnou seeks independence and defines his visual language as a “pictorial meme - both joyful and angry at the same time”.
At the center of the exhibition are two fundamental states of the contemporary human condition: fear and laughter. Rather than treating them as opposites, the artist invites viewers to see them as interconnected elements of a single lived experience.
What wounds us, the artist suggests, is also what enables us to move forward.
As Zmicier Zhalnou emphasizes, fear emerges as a human response to contemporary reality. Laughter, in turn, becomes an act of struggle and resistance, a reaction to the overcoming of fear.
Among the objects presented in the exhibition is condensed milk - “sgushchonka” from Rahachow and Hlybokaye. This element introduces an interactive dimension to the exhibition, inviting visitors to participate by voting for the version they prefer. As the artist explains, “people should have the right to choose.”
The exhibition is open to visitors until December 18 inclusive.
