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CLAMP is pleased to present Michal Chelbin’s exhibition “Sailboats and Swans,” her sixth solo show in New York City.

Over the course of six years, artist Michal Chelbin gained unprecedented access in order to photograph male and female inmates in seven prisons across Ukraine and Russia. Not wanting to be influenced by knowledge of her subjects’ crimes, she focused on the complicated gaze of the prisoners, completing her sessions before asking about the details of anyone’s sentence. Sometimes waiting hours for masks to be let down, Chelbin patiently sought expressions that transcended …