SHIT.

2018
'God Forbid!' (group exhibition)
Art-Kremlin Gallery. Moscow, Russia
papier-mache, rigging, digital printing
190x120x100 cm, 29x42 cm

Shield (“shit” in Russian pronunciation) - a type of weapon designed to protect against cold, hand and throwing weapons and to some extent firearms. Shit - ( с англ. «дерьмо», «говно»). As a samples: «Shit happens», «To be in deep shit», «Feel like shit», «Shit hit the fan» etc. There is fan slang. And the word "shit" did not pass them by. There is an expression "on shit" which means to have a cold weapon with you during the brawl. To organize “bawl on shit” - means to fight using various fighting items. Members of fan clubs have used the word “shit “ in relation to various cold weapons for a long time. This happened more likely because they preferred to fight hand-to-hand and having a cold weapon was considered as coward and weakling.