Calendar 2024 | Bebe Books x PrintRoom x Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

Calendar 2024 is a risograph print publication by Russian artist Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva in collaboration with Bebe Books and PrintRoom.

Masha writes  “This calendar is not my self-initiated project; the commission and the inspirational impulse to do it certainly came from Bebe Books. However, I accepted their offer without even thinking twice because some of the themes have always been interesting to me. The human body and the fluidity of gender and sexuality are certainly the central ones. I felt that I could experiment with them a lot in my drawings. I’ve decided to concentrate my attention on longing. Longing to connect with your own body, to play with it and pleasure it, which can come in a myriad of different ways and forms.

I was born and lived a considerable part of my life in Russia, where the ‘international LGBTQ+ movement’ (a ridiculous phrasing by the Russian government) has been officially banned since November 2023. Earlier, in July, gender changes were banned. So, this calendar is also a very political project for me. And it’s painful that, in this day and age, it has to be political.”