Is it true that in the Paris Museum they put up a mocking Zelensky exhibit in the form of a nose?

In March 2023, a video of art installations that depicts a nose that sucks white powder spread in social networks. Users of social networks claim that this object makes fun of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. We decided to check if this is so.

In most publications, a small video is accompanied by the same phrase: "A art object dedicated to Zelensky was set up in the Paris Museum of Modern Art." This was written in Telegramincluding in popular channels "Voblya"(160 thousand views at the time of writing this analysis),"From the scene"(101 thousand views) and"Putin TG Team"(85 thousand views). Also, publications appeared in "VKontakte", On the platform"Zen"And in Twitter.

Video, dispersed through social networks, is very small, only 9 seconds. On it, a huge nose drives along the platform and collects white powder (apparently, crushed foam). Obviously, this is an allusion to the use of cocaine. And fakes about the use of Zelensky drugs Distributing On the Internet since 2019.

In the Russian -language segment of the Internet, the news about the exhibition and an unusual exhibit is easy to find: back in September 2018, I wrote about this TJournal. The exhibition called The Way Out was not held in Paris, but in Italy, in Parma, in the Center for Modern Art of The Mori Center. An article on the opening of a new cultural space in Parma, in the building of the former trading gallery, Published Artribune publication. The life of The Mori Center (by 2023 it has already closed) began just from the exhibition The Way out And the works of young Berlin artists, among which are also indicated by Tom Pallukh, the author of the nose-perch.

IN Instagram The artist is a selection Storizdedicated to this nose: the process of creating installations, episodes from the exhibition and, finally, the full version of the very video, which later became viral.

All these videos were also published in the fall of 2018, then when the exhibition was held in Parma. Already on September 27, 2018, a video with a nose appeared on the platform RedditAfter which he became popular - the post collected more than 1,500 comments.

In 2018, Vladimir Zelensky was not yet widely known outside the post -Soviet space. In September of that year advancement Candidates for the president of Ukraine did not even begin, and the second round in which Zelensky won took place on April 21, 2019. It is difficult to assume that someone in Italy or in Germany could seriously be interested in Zelensky in 2018 and devote any installation to him.

Thus, it was possible to establish that, firstly, the exhibition was not held in Paris in 2023, but in Parma almost five years ago. Secondly, the installation has nothing to do with Zelensky. Thirdly, this is already Not the first case Fakes about allegedly dedicated to Zelensky art objects in Europe.

Photo on the cover: social networks

Not true

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