Libido

Ilya Sin's "Libido" is a bold reimagining of Belarusian urban and rural life, where the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. It features sex toys, explosive shells, and churches turned into bazaars, as the characters search for themselves and love amidst the grayness of the endless 90s. This is a book about Nothing and how it reflects our world.

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Ilya Sin and his "Libido" are a reworking of common Belarusian archetypes about our cities and villages, our thoughts and dreams, our everyday life and our culture. The time when the book takes place is not important at all, because so little has changed.

"It always seemed to me that to validate your existence, you had to be reflected in the eyes of other people. To simply be, you had to constantly be for someone."

This time we are returning to the public “LIbido” by the novelist and performer Ilya Sin. A cinematic-surrealist book about existential horror in a post-Soviet metropolis. Here, together with the main heroine, sex toys robots and explosive shells settled, shopping malls moved into the church, and the cloth grayness still did not want to leave the endless 90s. However, what are such images? Are they meager decorations for the life of Maria and her search for love, or are they real actors whose roles are our reality.

"Shin in "Libido" meets Nothing face to face, calmly contemplates him and recreates his appearance."