HD video, 15:23 min. 2014 - 2015 In Regular Places, comings and goings of citizens in five public locations around Kharkiv are filmed from a static angle. Without a sense of context, the uneventful footage seems irreconcilable with the brutally violent conflict between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists that occurred here only months earlier. Rupturing the calm atmosphere, audio excerpts extracted from online videos have been overlaid on top of the footage; shouts of threats, warnings, abuse and intimidation echo across indifferent scenes, in a forced confrontation between recent traumatic memories and a present state of collective denial.     "Regular places", stills from video Exhibition History: 2015 - "All the World's Futures". 56th Venice Biennale for Contemporary Art, IT  Photo (c) Alessandra Chemollo / la Biennale di Venezia) 2015 - "Phone Calls From the Cemetery and Other Stories". Academy of the Arts of the World. Cologne, DE 2015 - "Our National Body". Arsenal City Gallery. Bialystok, PL 2016 - "A Sense of History". The Video Art Collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at Nordstern Video Art Center. Gelsenkirchen, DE 2016 - "Under Suspicion". Edel Assanti. London, GB 2016 - "Forecast for Yesterday". Blockhaus DY10. Nantes, FR 2016 - "Your Country Doesn't Exist". Art Radionica Lazareti, Galerija Otok. Dubrovnik / Multimedia Culture Center, Split. HR 2017 - "Your Country Doesn't Exist". Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Rijeka, HR 2017 - "The Image of War". Bonniers Konsthall. Stockholm, SE 2018 - "Facing the Wall". Labirynt City Gallery. Lublin, PL Collections: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, DE |
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