“Pojma” is an interactive art exhibition dedicated to the influence of viaskovaść (rurality, countrysidity) on the identity of Belarusians, and the study of collective nostalgia for an “authentic” home. Pojma means floodplain. The name of this project came from the location of the author’s authentic home, classified as a floodplain, changing and thriving in its own unique way for as long as she can remember. The state of river started changing for worse after intervention from the local factories, so the name also plays the role of memoriam-in-advance. Belarusian culture is greatly determined by life in the countryside. Kseniya Lukashenia noticed that looking at others’ countryside pictures made her heart ache too, even though she had never seen the places depicted before. There is something universal in the concept of that “authentic home”, something we are powerless to recreate from scratch or in emigration. It’s a place that accumulates household items, clothes, documents, and folklore of families. Many Belarusians were deprived of this authentic home after being forced to leave Belarus, and now look for other ways of remembering their roots. This installation attempts to recreate the collective memory and personal aches tied together by the story of the possession and loss of the authentic home.