Yulia Tsvetkova is a Russian artist and activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. On the 11th of February 2020, she became a political prisoner. She wrote and lectured on feminism, LGBT rights, anti-militarism, and the environment. In 2018 she opened a city community centre for civic initiatives and started Merak, a community-based theatre project. Her works have been acquired by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 2020 she was recognized by the BBC as one of the top 100 most influential women. Photo Credit: Ann Khodyreva
The entangled artistic and activist contexts of these drawings reveal the complex political regime under which artists are working in Russia today.
The starving person must have some kind of demand. My demand is simple. I ask the state to “come out and fight.”
