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ANTON KARYUK


I was happy not to be alone
Men’s Beach
My anti-tank hedgehog
Empire collapsed
Armpits
Sexual objectification
Progress
Value
You've got mail
2050
Concerto No. 1
Holiday
Signal tape
Friendship of Nations
Guilty Fresher
Personal flag
Nice to meet you
Roleplays
Forbidden family
Sapfo manifesto

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Photo Pinchuk Art Centre

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The minimalist installation by Anton Karyuk is dedicated to the topic of safety of LGBTQ+ community members in the public space. After each pride participants, afraid of violent incidents try to leave the city center by jumping into a subway car. In these situations, the presence or absence of a subway token in your pocket determines how quickly you'll be able to leave the dangerous place. The subway token in cast silver embodies the preciousness of personal safety and opposes the violence and hatred against the LGBTQ+ community. As an analogy to the gradually changing and modernizing system of payment in the Kyiv Metro System, the artist speaks about changes in the society, which must find new means of communication, alternative to the language of violence.


Installation.

Pinchuk Art Centre. Kyiv, Ukraine. 2020.