Public art installation, 2021
Digital Artwork, 2022 (exhibition `Colored Lenses: Life among others`)
With the support of European Cultural Foundation
Digital adaptation of the work was presented on the online-exhibition
`Colored Lenses: Life among others`, 2022, Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program of the Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, in partnership with the Karazin Kharkiv
National University and YermilovCenter.
An offline exhibition suposed to be realised at YermilovCenter in spring, 2022, but was posponed due to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
An offline exhibition suposed to be realised at YermilovCenter in spring, 2022, but was posponed due to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A historical event does not exist until it is visually fixed. Thus, it is the historical photograph that defines how history will be interpreted.
Public memory is fragile — easily erased with a single click in the name of ideology or censorship. Today, when anyone can create or share an image on social media, control over history becomes unstable. In response, algorithms have been created to decide which images are acceptable and which should be hidden or deleted. This visual dictatorship becomes a powerful tool for manipulating historical memory.
An instalation is based at the Independence Square, Ukraine’s key historical landmarks and a national symbol of protest against dictatorship. Along its corridors hang rows of identical screenshots: the same archival photograph, repeatedly flagged and hidden by social media algorithms as potentially violent content. These screenshots appear in various languages, underscoring the global scale of algorithmic censorship.
The specific historical event shown in the photo is not the focus — because memory conflicts are timeless. Ignoring one trauma inevitably leads to the forgetting of others.
This space invites viewers to move through the structure, reconstruct events on their own terms, and reflect on how history can be told, shaped, hidden, or erased.
Public memory is fragile — easily erased with a single click in the name of ideology or censorship. Today, when anyone can create or share an image on social media, control over history becomes unstable. In response, algorithms have been created to decide which images are acceptable and which should be hidden or deleted. This visual dictatorship becomes a powerful tool for manipulating historical memory.
An instalation is based at the Independence Square, Ukraine’s key historical landmarks and a national symbol of protest against dictatorship. Along its corridors hang rows of identical screenshots: the same archival photograph, repeatedly flagged and hidden by social media algorithms as potentially violent content. These screenshots appear in various languages, underscoring the global scale of algorithmic censorship.
The specific historical event shown in the photo is not the focus — because memory conflicts are timeless. Ignoring one trauma inevitably leads to the forgetting of others.
This space invites viewers to move through the structure, reconstruct events on their own terms, and reflect on how history can be told, shaped, hidden, or erased.