When the Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long

We are very happy to announce book premiere When the Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Lon'g (2023), published by Spector Books in collaboration with Arsenal Gallery (Białystok), Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK, Leipzig), Goethe Institute (Warsaw).

The publication When the Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long offers insight into the complex historical, political, and phenomenological territory known as Belarus. It showcases the interplay between a tendency toward tradition, the archaic, and cosmology on one hand, and a pursuit of a purer form of modernist avant-garde on the other.

Theoretical texts, poems, and interviews in English and Belarusian language frame the work of 20 Belarusian artists, reflecting various forms of resistance against repressive systems. These forms include the appropriation of ritual practices, artistic expression in the form of amateur cosmology, or the invention of a new language and game. When the Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long is based on a group exhibition that was shown under the same title in 2022 at the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok and the Gallery for Contemporary Art in Leipzig.

Design: Malin Gewinner
https://spectorbooks.com/book/when-the-sun-is-low-the-shadows-are-long 
 
Anna Karpenko - curator and author. Born in Minsk, currently resides in Leipzig.
Her curatorial practice and research focus on the connections between archaic and
contemporary forms of existence.
Lena Prents - curator, art historian. Born in Minsk, based in Berlin. Since 2020, she
has been running the municipal Prater Galerie in Berlin.
Daniel Muzyczuk - curator and writer. Lives and works in Warsaw.
Monika Szewczyk - curator, director of Arsenal Gallery, Białystok.
Anna König - author and publisher Spector Books, Leipzig.