About the book: 2022 / The heroines of "Girls and Institutions" work in state cultural institutions. This is a special world, like a nightmare, seeking to impose its opaque laws on each and everyone who gets there. Complaints to the department, accountable events, quarterly bonuses, reports and reprimands form the basis of everyday life in this world. Girls here are a secondary element of the system, on which, however, this entire system rests. They enter into complex and often codependent relationships with the system: they live according to its laws, sometimes rebel, sometimes obey, mourn, rejoice and dance, leave and return. Daria Serenko tried to describe this world of girls and institutions in order to make the choir of hundreds of girls more distinguishable behind the usual noise of the state machine and official culture. “Girls and Institutions” is an accurate portrait of the era in which we live, a portrait written from a previously unseen angle. The book contains obscene language.