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Rufina Bazlova
Rufina Bazlova is depicted standing. She is holding a square artwork with red pictograms on a white background. Bazlova's red curly hair is half-length and she is wearing a loose white blouse. She looks directly into the camera.
(2022)
Born1990 (1990)
Belarus
NationalityBelarusian
Known forIllustration
Notable workThe History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka, Framed in Belarus
AwardsYoung Package Award
Websitevyzyvanka.com

Rufina Bazlova (Template:Lang-be; born 1990) is a Belarusian artist based in Prague. She gained international renown for her 2020 series The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka, which uses the traditional embroidery craft of Vyshyvanka to depict the protests in Belarus.

Biography

Rufina Bazlova comes from the large city of Grodno in western Belarus. She studied in Plzeň and has worked in Prague as a set designer and performance artist. She received her master's diploma in illustration and graphic design from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2015. Bazlova moved to Prague and completed a bachelor's degree in scenography at the Academy of Performing Arts in 2020.[1]

Work

In August 2020, thousands of people joined the protests against Alexander Lukashenko's election, including many artists. In response to the Belarusian election campaign, Rufina Bazlova designed the first protest embroideries and posted her work on Instagram. Bazlova uses traditional Belarusian embroidery to create critical art. The figures, which look like pictograms, are in the national colors of white and red of the Belarusian opposition. The technique of applying red thread to white fabric with cross stitching invokes the Vyshyvanka technique, a local folklore.[2] The embroideries, which at first seem harmless, become digital narratives and thus a testimony to the Belarusian mass protests.[3]

Since the early Middle Ages, Vyshyvanka, the East Slavic patterns in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been embroidered on clothing. Motifs of that time were about love, the sun or protection against evil spirits. Bazlova's depictions include tanks, helicopters, fleeing people and swastikas and cockroaches dumping trucks. Among protesters in Belarus, the cockroach symbol is code for President Alexander Lukashenko, who has brutally quelled mass protests since the allegedly rigged presidential election in August 2020. Bazlova's art provides insight into the female-driven democratic resistance in Belarus.[4]

Rufina Bazlova creates her designs digitally; very few motifs are actually produced, as production would be too time-consuming. The digitally processed Vyshyvanka document the ongoing history of the Belarusian uprising. According to Bazlova, each tableau is associated with an actual event from 2020. Her Serie The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka has become international notoriety; Vyzhyvanka is a play on words from the Belarusian words "embroidery" and "survival." Vyshyvanka means "embroidered shirt." Vyzhyvats means "survival".[5] In the embroidered comic Zhenokol (Feminnature) Rufina Bazlova presented themes on feminism in folk tradition.[6][1]

The original background was that women who made traditional Belarusian ornaments could neither read nor write. Embroidery was the only way to represent their life, their surroundings. They created special geometric signs and used mainly red color as a symbol of blood and life on the pure linen background, which symbolized freedom and purity. Belarusian ornaments are in a way a code for our national history, which could be read as a text.

— Rufina Bazlova[7]

Together with Sofia Tocar, Bazlova founded Framed in Belarus, a social art project that addresses the situation of political prisoners.[8] On the occasion of the Charlemagne Prize award in 2022 Rufina Bazlova exhibited current works in Aachen.[9]

In August 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wore a shirt designed by Bazlova at the opening of Independence Week.[10][11] Rufina Bazlova designed the New Year's card for the German Federal Foreign Office in 2022.[12]

Awards

  • 2010: The main prize in the international Young Package Award in comics category
  • 2021: The second prize on III Biennale of Artistic Textiles in Poznan[13]

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions

References

  1. ^ a b Philipp Fritz aus Prag. "Weissrussland - Sticken gegen Lukaschenko: Wie diese junge Frau mit Nadel und Faden gegen das Regime ankämpft". www.luzernerzeitung.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  2. ^ Susanne Altmann (2020-09-25), art – Das Kunstmagazin (ed.), Kunst für eine bessere Welt, p. 18
  3. ^ Philipp Fritz (2020-09-08). "Weißrussland: Das politische Erwachen der Jugend - WELT". www.welt.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  4. ^ Leipziger Volkszeitung (2021-03-09). "Widerstand als roter Faden: Leipziger Galerie zeigt Ausstellung über das Demonstrieren". www.lvz.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  5. ^ "The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka". bazlova.humspace.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  6. ^ "Author". www.vyzyvanka.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  7. ^ Volkszeitung, Leipziger. "„Die Opposition ist definitiv nicht gescheitert": Belarussin Rufina Bazlova zeigt ihre Kunst in Leipzig". www.lvz.de. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Rufina Bazlova – Outpost". www.kunstvereindresden.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  9. ^ "Freitag, 13.05.2022, 19.00 Uhr". www.karlspreis.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  10. ^ Jana Haase (2022-09-28). "Belarus-Dokumentation am blu? :Nächste Idee für den Minsk-Ausblick". www.tagesspiegel.de. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  11. ^ Angela Delonge (2022-08-24). "Weißrussin macht Furore: Selenskyjs Hemd: Designt von Karlspreis-Künstlerin Bazlova". www.aachener-zeitung.de/ (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  12. ^ "Rufina Bazlova on Instagram". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2023-02-17. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  13. ^ "Wystawa główna „Przyszłość Woloności"". 14 May 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  14. ^ "DAS MINSK". dasminsk.de. Archived from the original on 2023-02-14. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  15. ^ https://www.kunstvereindresden.de/rufina-bazlova
  16. ^ https://greatfon.com/v/prostory.work
  17. ^ https://suermondt-ludwig-museum.de/ausstellung/archiv/2022-2/rufina-bazlova/
  18. ^ Martyna Czekalska (2021-09-05). "Łowicz. Wernisaż wystawy „Nici z demokracji" Rufiny Bazlovej w Galerii Browarna (foto)". lowicz24.eu (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  19. ^ "The History of Belarussian Vyzhyvanka /". bazlova.humspace.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  20. ^ https://www.lanazione.it/arezzo/cosa%20fare/arezzo-sansepolcro-mostra-1.8445549
  21. ^ "Politics in Art - MOCAK". en.mocak.pl. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  22. ^ https://weserburg.de/ausstellung/what-is-the-proper-way-to-display-a-flag/
  23. ^ https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/485147/manifest-yourself-queer-feminist-manifestos-since-the-suffragettes/
  24. ^ https://wendemuseum.org/exhibition/the-medium-is-the-message-flags-and-banners/
  25. ^ https://www.aspngalerie.de/show/demo-mode-society-i/
  26. ^ https://actu.fr/normandie/bayeux_14047/bayeux-l-exposition-estivale-dediee-a-l-art-textile_42317983.html
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