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Anna Nova Gallery presents an exhibition by Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov.

His Poison Museum is a project connecting archeology, biology, and art. Through the use of visual elements of poisonous animals and plants, the artist has formed a peculiar museum of poisons and antidotes, illness protecting amulets and artefacts of the medieval antidote industry. Ancient tribes believed that poisons and illnesses were the same and used similar words to denote them. People used to diabolize illnesses, imaging them as monsters, and crafting protection artefacts and spirit catchers. Then, in the Middle Ages, …