"CANCER TUMOR OF RUSSIAN TOTALITARIAN IMPERIALISM" by Mila Cheprasova

Handmade Embroidery,
Size approximately 67x148 cm
Materials: Textile, Threads

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Mila Cheprasova, a young Ukrainian artist. At the Residence, she reflected on the topic of security and freedom of Ukrainians and the nearest neighboring countries. To implement her thoughts about the struggle against the Russian imperial regime, which Ukrainians are currently conducting. And also about the awareness and acceptance of a new reality, the study of oneself in new circumstances. She was performing right in the session hall of the Rīgas dome creating her work CANCER TUMOR OF RUSSIAN TOTALITARIAN IMPERIALISM and visitors saw her on the big screen within the exposition in real time. This work is a metaphor for the fact that war spreads like a cancerous tumor and approaches the borders of Europe. The result of the performance was an embroidered panel.

“The project is called "Cancer Tumor of Russian totalitarian imperialism". I believe that the Russian Federation is a modern empire. In my performance, I compare the Russian totalitarian imperialist regime with a cancerous tumor. After all, he seeks to constantly expand physically, destroys everything on his way that he cannot transform into himself, and throws metastases around the world. Through propaganda and corruption, he is trying to spread his sick essence around the world. In the performance, I turn something cozy, like the soft embroidery of a carpet, into something sick. As with cancer, we have no choice but to fight. After all, they themselves will not stop until they are stopped. Apart from the fact that I consider such a comparison to be appropriate. It is also personal to me. After all, cancer destroys something dear to me again. 22 years ago, he destroyed my mother, and now, sick of imperialism, the Russians are crawling and trying to destroy my country, my home”, Mila Cheprasova.