“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Beyond Good and Evil
Feud
Crimea 12.2013- 03.2014
The project is a kind of diary. The term "feud" in the title can be simultaneously applied to both context, political one and the context of personal relationships.
The basis of project contains intimate photos of the author that are mixed with news screenshots featuring the hostile and unstable political situation.
Feud is the fraternal war in which the opposition parties often can’t explain its roots and its prime cause. It is some kind of certain sacral action reproducing itself.
Actually it is very difficult to be aside of the situation, there is no chance not to react for information provocations, current news and you can’t avoid looking at falling down of Lenin’s monument, when you are in the center of events. The strategic lie generates aggression, and you inevitably become its partner. The dissonance between common sense and reality is out of any understanding.
Feud is a category of intimate space. Close people who share common bed and who have common past, suddenly become real enemies. Everyone prepares his own concealed plan and builds the strategy of envision. Who started this provocation and what is the source of its nature? You are becoming dependent on it, as if it is some kind of a drug. You feel yourself as an animal in a cage, but you can’t jump out. War and Hate here look like a passion, just like the filling and identification of yourself using your counterpart.
2014