Vsevolod Seva Kovalevskij. Margins & Miracles

By weaving together personal archives, fragmented memories, and popular media imagery, Vsevolod Seva Kovalevskij reveals the gap between the lived experiences of queer people, institutional memory, and mediated truth. Queer existence is inseparable from the city’s public spaces – where visibility can mean both community and danger.

A monumental comic-style drawing takes us through the streets of Vilnius, London, and Oslo. The first Lithuanian ‘Baltic Pride’ march in 2010, confrontations within the LGBTQIA+ community at London Pride in 2018, and the shooting in Oslo in 2022 – events personally experienced by the artist – are brought together in a graphic narrative about life under conditions of ever-changing insecurity. Within the drawing, proclamatory protest signs, silent politicians, and the artist’s ‘off-screen’ voice restore what usually remains outside the official narrative.