"Flowers of Evil" is borrowed from Charles Baudelaire, who called his collection of poems that way, because of which the writer was convicted and fined for violating the norms of public morality, but this has nothing to do with the exhibition. Rather, history serves as a reminder that such a heavy and abstract definition as public morality is not protected from corrosion, change and manipulation. Art and politics are in complex, sometimes codependent and not obvious, at first glance, relations.

The exhibition combines various works of art dedicated to flowers. A topic that can easily be accused of being decorative, apolitical and ignoring those social challenges that, like snowdrops after winter, rise in our public consciousness. On the one hand, at a time when the figure of an artist is socially significant, and the words and actions of artists can influence public opinion, painting a still life with flowers seems almost malicious.

It is no coincidence that in his 1967 essay on "The Responsibility of Intellectuals", Noam Chomsky indicates that the task of an intellectual, to which the vast majority of good artists attribute themselves, is to expose lies and to speak the truth.

Later, in 2020, the same Chomsky signs a Letter on Justice and Open Debate, which sharply criticizes the Cancel Culture- the very one that administers justice today on behalf of a certain public morality. It turns out that because of the requirements for art to be only political, we exclude all other flowers from this bed and break the logic of all "flowers need to grow". On the other hand, art is a way of reflection, and it is not possible to bypass the political in the plowed land of our common fresh wounds.

Flowers of Evil is a research exhibition, an attempt to look at various flowers through the prism of history, politics, linguistics and conflict. These flowers only pretend to be beautiful. In fact, they are illegal, dangerous and cause anything from war and anxiety, to economic crises and allergies.