Minsk: A guide to the city of my nostalgia

My hometown, Minsk, is located some 1000 km and decades away from my current place of residence, and this distance is ever growing. I tried to look into the abyss and explore my feelings I cautiously label as ‘nostalgia’, which I define more as a complex longing than a mere desire to return home. To navigate this nostalgia, I engage with artistic works, including Artur Klinaŭ’s book Minsk: A Guide to the City of the Sun and Tania Arcimovich’s multimedia project Belarus 4:33. City of the Sun Point Zero, while incorporating my own, third-generation perspective. Ultimately, it is a journey of collecting and weaving together fragments of transgenerational memory into a cohesive narrative about the place that might have never truly existed.