Surreality of Facts

2019 
serigraphy, digital print, ink drawing
Various sizes

 

The series work with information related to the conflict in the Crimea. It shows facutal data like a map of Crimea, technical drawing of a Russian boat Grisha II and an actual panorama of Port of Mariupol. They are shown as mirror images and manipulated in a way to create a new, fictitious reality of the world “behind the mirror.

“It is a situation where right-wing audience is told that the Ukraine is Jewish. And the left-wing audience is told that it is Nazi. It is not important that those narrative are contradictory, it is marketing. They only choose a certain marketing sector and serve them a specific message. It does not matter that people believe things that are not true or are contradictory. What does matter is that they do not believe what is really happening. This results in political polarization and to people not talking to each other. If you tell one side that they are Nazis and the other one that they are Jews, we have two sides of the universe that are not talking to each other although they live together in the same real world.” (Timothy Snyder)

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