Refugees
The war in Syria has been going on for three years. But the modern world is akin to the ocean: if a tsunami happened in one part of it, it will hardly be calm in the other sea. Therefore, even the most, at first sight, stable and prosperous countries. Take the same migrant crisis in Europe.
In such circumstances, it is art that becomes that soft, unobtrusive force, which helps us all if we do not adapt to change, then at least realize, what's happening. And do not drown in a world of horror or indifference. For instance, To achieve this effect, British sculptor-diver Jason Decaires Taylor forces spectators to dive to the bottom of a depression near the Canary Islands, to show them his creation "The Raft of Lampedusa". And scientists from Harvard and Oxford, together with specialists from the Museum of the Future (Dubai, UAE) using a 3D printer, they recreated an exact copy of an arch from Syrian Palmyra, which was destroyed by ISIS fighters, and installed it in Trafalgar Square in London.
The work "Refugees" by the Ukrainian creator Pivnyky, possibly, not so spectacular, but no less shrill. The author literally sends his characters sailing, the results of which are impossible to predict. Figures of cockerels are located on lifebuoys, connected by a cable. The current carries them down the river, a wave from a ship or wind can wash them ashore, and can take to the depth. It is this dynamic interaction that reflects threats and uncertainty., faced by people in "fluid modernity", as the famous sociologist Zygmunt Bauman called our era.
The drama of the work "Refugees" is enhanced by the, that the passengers themselves and their pitiful floating facilities, open to all storms, went down to the water already in a damaged condition. The author reminds, that it was not just war that drove them into the unknown, and the cruel in their senselessness bombing of residential areas.
Small figurines, located on clear-cut geometric areas, look - at the same time — chamber and monumental. And this game resembles in scale, how our perception of the same essentially the same events differs depending on, we are their observers or direct participants. After all, being at the epicenter, every centimeter of the surviving firmament is of particular importance, and a split second can cost life.
Of course, art cannot save the world, but, albeit slowly, but non-stop cleaning the brain, ridding him of unnecessary information noise and illusions.
With inspiration and a new column about Street Art,
SvitHome & Pivnyky time
