Prohibit & Protect

British artist Fergus John Channon lived for six years in Moscow, culminating in the coronavirus lockdown of 2020. This book collects Channon’s paintings from that time, a series of lovingly rendered close ups of closed off spaces, most poignantly, the red and white taped off children’s playgrounds of the city’s yards. It is a book that quietly examines what is questioned and what it lost when the state imposes rules to protect us.