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eng Automatic Translation

I want a woman president

Marina Naprushkina 2021
Canvas, acrylic, 215 x 187 cm

Selected events

Marina Naprushkina's work, "I Want a Woman President," references the mass protests against Lukashenko's government in Belarus, her home country, in the summer and fall of 2020. The peaceful protests were mostly led by women. Belarusian philosopher Olga Shparaga calls this movement a “revolution in process” and a “postnational revolution.” The artist's work is a tribute to Zoe Leonard's 1992 work I Want a President, which moves away from white, patriarchal, orthodox politics and calls for a new, more pluralistic and inclusive political imagination, and to musician and activist Maria Kolesnikova, who is imprisoned in Belarus with 2020 and sentenced to eleven years.

Naprushkina also tries to introduce a new type of politician in her work. The text conveys the urgency of rethinking political concepts, representation and, ultimately, governance. Moreover, Naprushkina refers to the manipulation of the 2020 presidential elections, in which the wives of three previously arrested oppositionists ran against President Alexander Lukashenko, but were unable to win due to confirmed manipulations.

The text on the canvas is written in Russian, the official and national language in Belarus, which the population of Belarus had and still has to learn and speak. For this reason, people often can no longer speak their original Belarusian language and can usually only read and write it. Translations into English and Belarusian are available next to the canvas as double-sided printed sheets for viewing and taking with you.