MADAM

Manifesto Against Dirty Art Money

If culture is meant to make us humane, we must admit: Russian culture has failed in this mission.

If humanity wishes to wake from its slumber, it must choose one of two pills:

- either Russian culture deliberately provokes hatred, feeding wars with it;

- or (if its true mission is to protect people from absolute evil) it has proved so weak and worthless that it has failed in that mission.

From these two statements arise two questions:

- Why admire what kills?

- Why admire what is powerless?

There is only one answer to both questions — money.

Absolute evil pours dirty money into the art world so that people never search for answers to these questions. Because if they did, the answers would give them the strength to choose. And any choice made would be against evil, because evil would be defeated.

That is why evil pays to ensure that choice is never made.

Why is art a target for evil? Because art is the soul of humanity.

Evil uses art as a mask for its ideology.

Ideology is the antagonism of art. Art strives for freedom. Ideology strives for control. Art perceives the world through individual experience. Ideology interprets reality through a collective lens.

When we allow ideology to wear the mask of art, we end up with propaganda.

Propaganda distorts our sense of beauty. The result is a culture of hatred. And instead of condemning this culture, we allow it to buy admiration and status.

Open your eyes! This culture is hollow. That is why it fills itself with stolen things, passing them off as its own.

From a history spanning millennia to the very name of its state, from works of art to the names of their creators — everything has been stolen. And those who could bear witness to these crimes have been destroyed.

The art market is compromised — its lifeblood poisoned by dirty art money taken from a dying monster.

The art market can heal. But first it must admit its sickness — and allow itself to be cured. Otherwise, it will perish along with the monster that feeds it.

Pavlo Kulyk

2025-08-08