Russian street artist Slava Ptrk sums up four years abroad: ‘Unwanted There / Unwanted Here’

Russian street artist Slava Ptrk, who left the country after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 and was later designated a foreign agent by Russian authorities, posted a new work reflecting on his exile. The piece, titled ‘Unwanted There / Unwanted Here,’ consists of two signs styled like bus stops placed on opposite sides of a highway near his hometown of Yekaterinburg.

It follows earlier works by Ptrk reimagining urban fixtures, including a sewer grate near the Kremlin redone as prison bars, and a sign reading ‘I Miss You’ that appeared beneath Yekaterinburg's city marker in June.

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