Double Bind
Künstler/in
Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair
(geb. 1980 in Moskau)
Date2016
ClassificationsVideo
MediumVideo, NTSC, 16:9, HD, color, sound (Russian), subtitles (English)
Dimensions4 min 49 sec 640 ms
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28108
DescriptionThe installation consists of a miniature statue modelled after ‘The Motherland Calls’ from Volgograd, which is placed in the centre of the installation, surrounded by 12 angular sculptures and a video work, all placed together for creating, not only a constellation within the space, but a mental map as well. In the video a young girl can be seen, in still, who only in every fifth minutes makes a statement in Russian: ‘It’s great that we have people like this and, you know, somehow you start to feel a sense of pride, a kind of hope that not all is lost.’ Shapiro-Obermair recorded her after a concert of the veteran’s of the WWII. Nonetheless these elderly people are not real veterans of the war, they only act as so. Recalling on the various aspects of propaganda, it resonates with the practice of theatre or rituals. The video itself is part of a collaborative interdisciplinary project between Shapiro-Obermair and the historian Alexandra Wachter; a research portraying the representation of the events of WWII in the matter of monuments and museums of Lviv, a city in West-Ukraine.[[missing key: detailactions.not-available-label]]
