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Anna Shilonosova, Dmitrii Moskovskii and Varvara Zimina have teamed up to co-curate an exhibition of works by Sasha Skochilenko, a Russian artist currently held in a detention facility for distributing anti-war information in a supermarket in St.-Petersburg, Russia. The exhibition will take place at The Koppel Project Station, a former police station in Hampstead, London.

Skochilenko replaced the price tags of goods on display with lookalikes that included information about war crimes committed by the Russian Army in Ukraine. She faces 10 years in prison for a case that is completely fabricated. The exhibition aims to amplify Skochilenko鈥檚 voice beyond the walls of the prison cell she has been spending the past year in and raise awareness of the atrocities the Russian government has been performing against its citizens.

All the artworks presented were created by Skochilenko while in detention at the Kresty facility. The team obtained detailed scans of the artworks through Skochilenko's partner Sonya, who has been instrumental in the exhibition's planning. Skochilenko has been drawing almost daily, as this is one of the few creative activities she is allowed to do while in detention. By putting the artworks in the former solitary cells of the Hampstead police station, the curatorial team aims to deliver their message loud and clear: freedom of speech can't be muted, incarcerated or held hostage.