Evgenia Elanic Russia / Georgia
16.02.2024 brooch
Piece included in the exhibition Tincal lab Challenge 2024 Jewelry and Freedom (maximum price 150€)
Materials brass, silver
Size 40x60x10mm
This imagery will be instantly recognized by any Russian oppositionist: two knocked over crowd fences, covered with white and red carnations. Flowers covered everything that day. The day of Alexey Navalny's funeral.
The crowd fences are inherent to any protest rally in Russia. They block the ways for people to flee when the RosGuardia is unleashed and packs everyone into police buses. Civil infrastructure originally, they turned into a symbol of Russian dictatorship. Entombed with flowers, they turn into a symbol of Russian resistance.
This brooch from two brass fences holds a few flowers like a boutonnière, embodying this symbol.
[Flowers not included.]
