A detail of one panel showing protesters clashing with riot police in Brest.
Bazlova says the textile political art, which mimics the patterns used on traditional vyshyvanka shirts, is impactful precisely because it is not shocking. Unlike distressing documentary imagery of the postelection violence, cross-stitch depictions are “nice, even though they’re speaking about hard topics,” the artist told RFE/RL.
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