Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery
Crush
Up and Down
I’ll be It!
Evil Blue Screen
Exist/Unkown
Filtered
Suffocation
Side Effect
Almost Opened Door
Memory Traces
Study of Landscape
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Rushing industrialisation during the 19th century has led to unprecedented development of the cities as centres of economical, political and intellectual life of the society. Increasing population of the megapolis leads to its growth, but also, what was already noticed by sociologists of 19th century, to continuous weakening of connection between people. Growing individualisation renders innocuous content of any message that we hear in everyday city life, turning metro speaker’s voice, fragments of speech on a street and commercial announcement into purely formal speech. Life of modern megapolis is pierced by cold of impossible communication.
This project refers to this formal structure: inside the installation viewer is haunted by fragments of sentences, whose content is not clear. Cold indifferent voice of unknown origin reads out loud those atavisms of human collectivity while viewer moves inside the white cube filled with cold light, so to say, terra sancta of the form. However, the coldness of this space is what we perceive in a trivial way — through sight and hearing. Cube’s exterior is made of expanded polystyrene, one of the most common thermal insulants, and the temperature inside is higher than on the outside. Coldness of contemporary social behaviour becomes “thermally insulated”, leading viewers to become a little bit closer to each other.