Natalia Mirzoyan „Lumi saadab meid”

“The Snow Accompanies Us” Artist: Natalia Mirzoyan Curator: Santa Zukker Opening October 6 at 17:30 October 7, 2026 – November 7, 2026 Pärnu City Gallery Artists' House project space, Nikolai 27, Pärnu On Tuesday, October 6 at 17:30, the art exhibition “The Snow Accompanies Us” will have its ceremonial opening at the Pärnu City Gallery Artists' House project space. You are welcome! The art exhibition “The Snow Accompanies Us” is inspired by the short animated film “Winter in March”, made at [contact details withheld] Academy of Arts and produced by the film studio Rebel Frame. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025 and has since received nearly twenty international awards from animation and film festivals around the world. The film also received [contact details withheld] Cultural Endowment's annual award for best animated film of 2025. The exhibition expands the poetic and political world created in the film, exploring helplessness and existential fear experienced by people under a repressive regime. The film tells the true story of a young couple from St. Petersburg, Kirill and Dasha. Russia's invasion of Ukraine shakes their lives. Dasha finds the strength to protest, while Kirill withdraws into himself and sinks ever deeper into depression. They decide to leave their homeland and set out for Georgia. The journey is metaphysical—the train runs along the Russian-Ukrainian border, where a landscape charged with symbols of war unfolds beyond the window. At the same time, the fellow passengers behave as if nothing is happening. Through the snowstorm and their fears, they reach the most painful moment of the journey at the border: will they be allowed to continue? Although they eventually reach Georgia, their greatest fear reaches them in another way—from an unexpected place. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in this world of imagery and emotional associations. The exhibition space is arranged as a journey, leading viewers from intimate memories to a broader political and poetic scale. The aim of the exhibition is to create an immersive experience that unites the film and exhibition into a single whole and enables the audience to sense the personal and collective experiences of war, repression and migration. This opens up the possibility of discussion around democracy, memory and resistance. Natalia Mirzoyan is an animation director and artist from Yerevan, Armenia, who lives in Estonia. She holds a master's degree in animation from [contact details withheld] Academy of Arts. Her films have been selected for programs and won awards at major international festivals, including Berlinale, Cannes, Annecy, Animafest Zagreb and Hiroshima. Natalia works in hand-drawn animation, stop-motion, illustration and sketching. Santa Zukker is active as a curator. Her curatorial work focuses especially on supporting emerging and young artists and creating dialogue between the arts. With a background in art history (a master's degree in museology from [contact details withheld] Academy of Arts), in addition to developing the content and staging of exhibitions, she also regularly writes in-depth exhibition reviews and cultural recommendations for the culture portal Edasi.org and elsewhere. Artist's team: Rebecca Kruus, Alexander Toodu, Kadi Rebane, Annaliisa Lepik, Katrina Oll, Marina Hirv, Dashka Dementeva, Saskia Sikk The exhibition is supported by [contact details withheld] Cultural Endowment. Admission to Pärnu City Gallery exhibitions is free. Pärnu City Gallery opening hours: Tue–Fri 11–17, Sat 11–14 (closed on public holidays)