time travel

VJ-ing tool; programmed using three.js library

Nostalgia is not just a poetic human sentiment but also a potent political tool. Often, we gaze into the past, convinced that life was much better back then, yet we seldom realize how fragmented those recollections truly are. A prominent instance of shared nostalgia in Russian culture is the "Ottepel," a brief historical period in the USSR when the political, social, and cultural aspects of society experienced significant improvements.

This VJ-ing tool takes us on a visual journey through a collection of photos from that era. However, it offers only fragmented glimpses of the actual reality and the illusions we preserve in our memories.

The accompanying music is provided by the Russian instrumentalists, "Megapolis."

oracle

Interactive installation: fabric, wood, Arduino-based electronics

Love, in all its forms, stands as one of the most powerful human desires yet also represents our greatest vulnerability. It's a force we cannot control or predict.

Love has the capacity to drive even the most rational individuals to madness, rendering them blind to reason. Fueled by an unrelenting desire, people often begin to seek supernatural signs.

The "Oracle" installation is a divination machine that provides individuals with random prophecies about their future. Some of these predictions may appear more coherent than others, but, in the end, it raises the question of how far one is willing to go to discover meaning within a seemingly arbitrary selection of words.

the city puzzle

Interactive installation, series of posers; wood, paper, cyanotype

The City Puzzle is an interactive installation created for the "Moving Type, Moving Cities" exhibition at the Fokker Terminal in Den Haag.

This work delves into the unnatural conditions that shape the development of modern cities, challenging the notion of viewing a city as merely a collection of disjointed components, each catering to individual needs, rather than functioning as a unified organism.

A series of posters served as a conceptual sketch for the installation, highlighting the disparity between the perceived state and our actual actions. The installation itself is a three-dimensional puzzle, offering participants the opportunity to experience the challenge of constructing a cohesive whole from separate pieces. Will the outcome be stable or beautiful? That's a decision left to you.