The exhibition presents the work of Lazo Plavevski created over the last seven years. These are cartoons that he has been continuously publishing on the Okno web portal since 2015, and whose realization was prompted by the crisis situation in which our country found itself, as a result of the undemocratic practices of governance by the ruling structures (illegal wiretapping, Skopje 2014, electoral manipulation, partisanship in all spheres of social life). During this period, over 500 cartoons have been published (from the first four cartoons published in March 2015, to the last series of 16 cartoons On Thin Ice! published in January 2022), which present the dark situation in the "Macedonian Dark Vilayet", but also the dark situation in which we find ourselves as a result of the suspension of the positive benefits and utopian assumptions of modernity.

The cartoons are published in series and are designed as specific thematic units: In them, he comments on and dissects political and social developments in the country, covering a wide range of topics, from the wiretapping scandal, populism, power, capital, identity, revolutionary spirit, the pandemic, to a series of "incidents" related to certain life situations and paradoxes.

The exhibition, which presents around 200 original and digital prints of cartoons, is an extraordinary opportunity not only to see the creative engagement of Lazo Plavevski in the field of cartooning, in which he occupies a prominent and significant place, but also to encourage and renew interest in this artistic medium, which in recent decades has almost been brought to the brink of its own disappearance.

The curator of the exhibition is Ljiljana Nedelkovska.

Lazo Plavevski (Skopje, 1954) is a caricaturist, art historian, curator, and art critic. Until 2021, he worked as a curator/curator advisor at the Museum of the City of Skopje. As a curator, he has organized a large number of solo and group exhibitions, and as a caricaturist, he has realized several solo projects and participated in several group exhibitions. From 1995 to 2009, he was a regular contributor and member of the editorial board of the visual arts magazine "The Big Glass", published by the Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje.

He has been publishing cartoons in several magazines in the country and abroad since 1970. In 1976, he received the GRAND PRIX award at the World Gallery of Cartoons in Skopje.

In 1995, he published "No Book / Cartoons 1990 – 1993", and in 2001, together with Miroslav Grchev, the book "Cards". In the form of a catalog/book in 2009, the project "Unusable Notes" was published, and in 2016, his electronic book "Recitative for the Dark Vilayet" was published on the Okno portal.