PHOTO GRAPHICS
BARE LIFE
Digital photo project, September 2020
in collaboration with Olegg Kulay-Kulaychuk
Despite all political and cultural revolutions, we are consistently and successfully implementing the commandment: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and own it.”. The population of the Earth is growing hyperbolically, and at the same time new forms of "alienation" and "exception" are appeared. Sooner or later, the humanity will be forced to regulate this issue with the help of new biopolitics, which will only intensify the loneliness of "Bare Life" (G. Agamben). Only representatives of the political elite, as well as the lowest and backward strata who do not have access to education, will produce offspring. "Cultured" and "educated" people will know that it is a great honor to become the carrier of an elite embryo that will have access to the programming code by birth. There will be no division into genders; everyone will be able to procreate offsprings. The details of today's everyday life will remain only as legends and myths. IT specialists who will become the new political elite will delete all existing world history and write the new one. The creation of a family or even the imitating one will be some kind of a “guilty pleasure” for some of the bravest punks. The rest will occasionally talk with the acquaintance robots, disconnected from the network, about the fact that once there were families of men and women and they had little people, whom they called "children".
in collaboration with Olegg Kulay-Kulaychuk
Despite all political and cultural revolutions, we are consistently and successfully implementing the commandment: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and own it.”. The population of the Earth is growing hyperbolically, and at the same time new forms of "alienation" and "exception" are appeared. Sooner or later, the humanity will be forced to regulate this issue with the help of new biopolitics, which will only intensify the loneliness of "Bare Life" (G. Agamben). Only representatives of the political elite, as well as the lowest and backward strata who do not have access to education, will produce offspring. "Cultured" and "educated" people will know that it is a great honor to become the carrier of an elite embryo that will have access to the programming code by birth. There will be no division into genders; everyone will be able to procreate offsprings. The details of today's everyday life will remain only as legends and myths. IT specialists who will become the new political elite will delete all existing world history and write the new one. The creation of a family or even the imitating one will be some kind of a “guilty pleasure” for some of the bravest punks. The rest will occasionally talk with the acquaintance robots, disconnected from the network, about the fact that once there were families of men and women and they had little people, whom they called "children".
In my project I present the “family album” of one of such apostate.
LOOK AT ME
Digital photo project, August 2019
in collaboration with Olegg Kulay-Kulaychuk
«When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings-figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behavior. Since the spectacle's job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminence once occupied by touch: the most abstract and easily deceived sense is the most readily adaptable to the generalized abstraction of present-day society. » [Guy Debord «The society of The Spectacle», 18] "Post-truth", "Simulacrum", "The Spectacle" - all these philosophical concepts revolve around one important issue. Is there something true (natural) left in us that is not a consequence of the society influence on us? What is not taught at school, is not told on TV, youtube, advertising boards of all types and sizes. Where to see the "truth", is it possible, how to live with the feeling that there is no truth, that it has "blurred", and in some places has completely spread out. It is impossible to collect spilled water from the floor back into the vessel without loss. Even if we move in this direction, obviously, we will never collect “everything”.
I found my piece of “not a spectacle” - this is my home, my family. I had to neglect many norms in order to get the life that I consider honest, perhaps even true. To do this, I explored myself in detail, asked myself many uncomfortable questions. Answering some of them, I cried.
Tears, being originally part of physiology, have become a manifestation of our emotions at the same time. This is an indicator that is able to show the depth of experiences. But we are no longer touched and delighted to tears by beautiful views, pastorals, art masterpieces, we are hardened. Our eyes (brain) are in a situation of constant visual glut associated with the active imposing of goods, services, shapes.
in collaboration with Olegg Kulay-Kulaychuk
«When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings-figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behavior. Since the spectacle's job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminence once occupied by touch: the most abstract and easily deceived sense is the most readily adaptable to the generalized abstraction of present-day society. » [Guy Debord «The society of The Spectacle», 18] "Post-truth", "Simulacrum", "The Spectacle" - all these philosophical concepts revolve around one important issue. Is there something true (natural) left in us that is not a consequence of the society influence on us? What is not taught at school, is not told on TV, youtube, advertising boards of all types and sizes. Where to see the "truth", is it possible, how to live with the feeling that there is no truth, that it has "blurred", and in some places has completely spread out. It is impossible to collect spilled water from the floor back into the vessel without loss. Even if we move in this direction, obviously, we will never collect “everything”.
I found my piece of “not a spectacle” - this is my home, my family. I had to neglect many norms in order to get the life that I consider honest, perhaps even true. To do this, I explored myself in detail, asked myself many uncomfortable questions. Answering some of them, I cried.
Tears, being originally part of physiology, have become a manifestation of our emotions at the same time. This is an indicator that is able to show the depth of experiences. But we are no longer touched and delighted to tears by beautiful views, pastorals, art masterpieces, we are hardened. Our eyes (brain) are in a situation of constant visual glut associated with the active imposing of goods, services, shapes.
In Russian, the word “onion” (luk) sounds like the English “look”. In the photo I cry from the onion, and not from the picturesque landscape around.
