Slava Mogutin, Queer Dissident Photographer Whose Art Revolutionized Russian Reforms, Ushers in a New Dawn

GayNrd Editors September 29, 2021

Rassvet, (PACCBET, the Russian word for “Dawn”), founded in 2016 by Gosha Rubchinskiy and Tolia Titaev, is a community of like-minded Muscovites dedicated to revitalizing the cultural landscape of their city through fashion, art, skateboarding, and music.

This Paris Fashion Week, they unveil a special collaboration with renowned Russian-American artist, author and activist Slava Mogutin.

Since their first meeting in Moscow in 2005, Mogutin and Rubchinskiy have maintained a cross-continental creative relationship throughout the years, previously collaborating on projects for Interview Russia and Man About Town (UK).

As part of RASSVET FW21, under the banner РАССВЕТ НЕ ЗА ГОРАМИ (THE DAWN IS COMING), comes a capsule collection featuring Mogutin’s photography, drawings, texts, and tattoos.

A selection of t-shirts and shirts, hoodies and sweaters, socks, scarfs, and skateboards offers a unique view into the artist’s diverse universe.

Alongside the collection, Mogutin created a limited edition zine shot in the summer of 2021 between NY and LA.

This multifaceted series of portraits documents Mogutin’s friends, queer youth, and fellow artists wearing his new designs and depicted in a variety of mediums including film, digital, and Polaroid photography, and body scans.

The zine is illustrated with Mogutin’s visual poetry and artwork. To celebrate the launch of this collaboration, a site-specific multimedia exhibition will take place on October 1st at 3537, a new art space in Le Marais located at 35-37 rue des Francs-Bourgeois.

The exhibition will remain on view through October 8th, followed by the release of the collection at Dover Street Market and Comme des Garçons stores, as well as specialty skate shops worldwide.

ABOUT SLAVA MOGUTIN

Born in Siberia, Slava Mogutin is a New York-based artist and author exiled from Russia for his outspoken queer writing and activism. A third-generation writer and self-taught photographer, he was the frst Russian granted political asylum in the US on the grounds of homophobic persecution. Informed by his bicultural dissident and refugee experience, Mogutin’s work examines the notions of displacement and identity, pride and shame, devotion and disaffection, love and hate. Mogutin is the author of seven books of writings in Russian, as well as four monographs of photography and two illustrated collections of poetry in English. He’s the winner of Andrei Bely Prize for poetry and the Tom of Finland Foundation Award for artistic achievement.

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