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Social

Year: 2018
Medium: single-channel video
Duration: 52'18"
Dimensions: 1920×1080 px
Sound: silent
Exhibition history: Social (Lviv, 2018)

A stone. The piece of solid rock. Using it people can build a home, or break a head with it.

A bread. It is called a shrine, for which people can break a head with a stone.

Shrine. Those who believe in it are called humans, and defending it makes people unhuman.

There is no room for analysis in a narrow world of absolute values.
 

The project is a long-term reflection on the processes taking place in our country. I would like to draw attention to the reason of the former USSR society isolation, their undesirability / inability to leave their own “little planet”. After the previous difficult history of the population, communism killed individuality, initiative, and the need to care about the future. Historical traumas affect values. The values of survival replace the values of self-realization. Every turn in the circle we stumble to the history – to its ignorance, unwillingness, and inability to analyze it.

Video by Roksolana Uhryniuk

© 2025 Roksolana Uhryniuk

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