Maxim Sarychau: Between Holocaust and Pandemic

In the artist-talk, visual artist and photojournalist Maxim Sarychau will be presenting online his 2 photographic projects, on which he worked at the Q21 residence in Vienna in 2020&2021.

Series “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” was made in the spring of 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, it visualizes human fragility and reflects on the state control over the circulation of images in the media.

The ongoing project “I can almost hear the birds” explores the theme of the (in) visibility of the Holocaust in the natural landscape of the former extermination camp Maly Trascianec (Belarus) and the urban space of contemporary cities where Jews lived before deportation to Minsk - Vienna, Berlin, Prague.

Both projects were shown in Belarus in 2021: in Brest at the personal exhibition in the KX Gallery and in a group exhibition “Machine breathes, but I don’t” in Minsk. Both exhibitions lasted 1 day and were closed by the authorities for far-fetched reasons.
WHERE: Zoom
WHEN: June 25 2021, 18 PM by Vienna, 19 PM by Minsk

Maxim Sarychau is a photojournalist and visual artist, lives and works in Minsk, Belarus. He works on long-term visual projects where he refers to the topics of violence of various forms and grades, both from authoritarian authorities or within traditional society. He focus on political and human dimensions of collective memory and history.
Maxim’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions including shows at the Latvian Museum of Photography (2020, Riga), Kasarna Karlin (2018, Prague) and CECH (2017, Minsk). He has been published in Wall Street Journal, Stern Crime, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Courrier International, Meduza, The Telegraph, and Le Monde Diplomatique among others.
http://sarychau.com
https://www.instagram.com/maximsarychau