For example, a few days ago, Malaysia unveiled a monument to the fight against corruption - a 12-meter-long hand made of steel, which was a gift to the country from the Qatari authorities for their anti-corruption efforts. The unveiling of the monument was accompanied by an award ceremony for the contribution to preventing and fighting corruption around the world, held with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). A year earlier, a similar monument was unveiled in Vienna, and in 2016 - in Geneva.

And Thailand has created an entire museum dedicated to the fight against corruption, featuring 10 sculptures symbolizing 10 of the country's most notorious corruption scandals. None of the exhibits give specific names, but visitors can already understand the references of the authors of the works: for example, the installation in the form of a disproportionate man swallowing construction columns symbolizes the alleged misappropriation of public funds allocated for the construction of 396 police stations across the country during the tenure of the ruler

Another "museum of corruption" has been created in Ukraine: when former President Viktor Yanukovych lost his post, his residence in Mezhyhirya with a total area of about 140 hectares was opened to the public as a kind of "monument to corruption." Crystal chandeliers, a gold toilet brush with rhinestones, knight's armor, a gothic cinema hall, a piano signed by John Lennon, sculptures and fountains, golf courses, a helicopter pad, a petting zoo and much, much more are now open to the eyes of visitors. And if initially the entrance to the residence was free, t

And in the city of Albany (New York State) next year is planned to open the Museum of Political Corruption, where visitors during the tour, passing through the "revolving door", "Lobbyists' Lobby", Tammany Hall (symbolizing the corrupt political society of the 19th century), will be able to hear stories about dishonest politicians, dubious deals and backroom brokers of New York, as well as learn about the people who fought political corruption. Members of the board of the future museum have already received badges - "kickbacks".

The theme of the fight against corruption is visualized not only in museum exhibitions, but also in individual monuments and installations. For example, the famous sculptor David Czerny, author of the famous Black Babies in Prague, in 2003 created a sculpture Brown nosers (literally - "brown noses", figuratively - "sycophants"), which embodied his disgust at corruption in the modern Czech Republic. The sculpture, located in the courtyard of the Prague gallery Futura, represents two lower parts of men's bodies bent at right angles and growing into the wall, to which ladders are attached from behind. under the wall.

The Russian city of Belgorod also has a monument to the fight against corruption - a statue of an "honest traffic policeman" installed in 2004, which has a real prototype - traffic police officer Pavel Grechikhin. Known in his native city for his integrity and incorruptibility, Grechikhin was no stranger to high officials and ranks, guided only by the law, and did not fail to issue a fine to his son who parked his official car incorrectly (who was a driver for the first secretary of the regional committee of the Belgorod region's Communist Party of the Soviet Union) and his wife who was crossing the road in the wrong place (with his wife, by the way, they later crossed the road in the wrong place).

Sometimes artists show their attitude to corruption not by creating new works, but by using existing ones. For example, during the anti-corruption protests in Brazil, about a hundred statues in Rio de Janeiro were blindfolded. This action symbolized the impossibility of calmly watching the events taking place in the country.