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“A few days in the Netherlands was enough for me to come to a conclusion: the two most important features of civilization are the attitude to garbage and to money.” – To Complete the Gestalt. Maks Ščur.

This is a true Euro-story by a first-wave Belarusian emigrant who, in pursuit of abstraction, embarks on an odyssey from Prague to Amsterdam, along the way taking apart modern Europe, then Belarus and, of course, himself. Along the way there will be museums, ghosts of the past, spontaneous lovers and communists, which the author will fight with a sharp pen and an accurate photographic gun.

“Europe is drawn here not as a stately monolith that needs to be moved from its foundations, but as a series of absolutely peculiar phenomena, connected by rather virtual ties. The diversity of Europeanness, including ‘Eurofascists,’ migrants and the volunteers who help them, Russian tourists and the Van Gogh Museum with its kitschy souvenirs, does not boil down to a single diagnosis or prognosis.” – read more.