light blue
Installation, 21:16 min
2023
Shattered glass, sound equipment, slowed-down version of the Soviet-era song for a children’s choir “Fly, doves” Летите, голуби composed by M.L Matusovsky for the 1951 film “We are for peace” Мы за мир. The first lines from the song “fly doves, fly” (Летите, голуби, летите) were used to warn gay men about a coming police or KGB raid. Golubój or голубой in Russian, is a coded word used not only for doves or the colour light blue but also for homosexual men.
Photo: Loc Vo, from the exhibition "red light blue night watch".
Photo: Youngjae Lih, from the exhibition "red light blue night watch".
Photo: Loc Vo, from the exhibition "red light blue night watch".
Photo: Youngjae Lih, from the exhibition "red light blue night watch".
Photo: Loc Vo, from the exhibition "red light blue night watch".
Photo: Loc Vo, from the exhibition "red light blue night watch".
Photo: Evelina Elere, from the exhibition "Fly doves, fly" at Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst in Trondheim, Norway.
Photo: Evelina Elere, from the opening of the exhibition "Fly doves, fly" at Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst in Trondheim, Norway.
Photo: Evelina Elere, from the opening of the exhibition "Fly doves, fly" at Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst in Trondheim, Norway.