Beginning with elections to the Russian State Duma, in December 2011, and ending with the third so-called March of the Millions, in September 2012, Victoria Lomasko sketched all the major opposition rallies and protest events in Moscow. “I was interested not only in sketching the protests but also in analyzing the work of other artists who were drawing these same rallies, as well as studying Russian graphic art that portrays events from the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. I wanted to understand the different ways of treating this subject.”

The article is published in cooperation with the exhibition “Drawing Protest”, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 19.10.2013 – 09.01.2014, curated by Olga Vostretsova.