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Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of collective trauma representation in art in the works of three Belarusian photographers of the post-Soviet period: Igor Savchenko, Galina Moskaleva, Sergey Kozhemyakin. The author gives an overview of such concepts as «trauma», «collective trauma», «work of mourning», and examines some characteristics of the «affective component» of photography. The article sets out theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of the inexpressible and refers to the concepts of I. Kant, E. Burke, J.- F. Lyotard, F. Ankersmit and J. Rancière. The author comes the conclusion that the images created by Belarusian photographers express splitting, breaking, and fragmentation. The aesthetic program of Belarusian photographers consists in appropriating photos from personal and anonymous archives, recomposing images in a new context, framing, and fragmenting photos. It often reveals that a lot of photos cannot be «read», which allows us to say that there is an unsymbolized residue in these images, i.e. «punctum».