The interactive performative intervention “MADE IN…” operates through the strategic deconstruction of one of the most potent ideological artifacts of the 20th century: the front page of the Soviet newspaper Pravda from May 9, 1945.

While the original document contains Joseph Stalin’s historic address to the Soviet people regarding the victory over Nazi Germany, I perfored a radical act of semantic erasure.

By systematically stripping the text of all historical specifics names, dates, geographic locations, and identified adversaries I deconstacted a unique historical moment into an abstract, hollowed-out rhetoric.

What remains is a skeletal narrative of “Victory” that lacks a subject and an object.

The viewer is confronted with a profound ambiguity: Who fought? Who conquered whom? What was the nature of the event itself?

Through this intervention, the leaflet loses its temporal and geopolitical identity, becoming a timeless and, lamentably, universal template.

This project asserts that the essence of armed conflict, regardless of the historical stage of human civilization, follows an identical pattern used to construct and sustain any power formation.

By distributing these leaflets within the public space and engaging the audience in their dissemination, the project exposes the mechanics of political rhetoric that utilize the concept of victory as a permanent tool of governance.

“MADE IN…” serves as a critical mirror to the present, suggesting that the structures of authority remain indifferent to the specifics of history, relying instead on a repeatable, faceless imagery of triumph to assert their legitimacy.

The city square thus becomes a site where the “sacred” document is revealed to be a functional part of an eternal, geopolitical machinery and turns into an empty form, revealing the universal algorithm of any power.

The project was implemented as an interactive interventions in the city’s public space.

2011

Implementation of an interactive intervention in the public space of the city on Red Square, Moscow (RU)

2010

“CAN”, Festival of Public Art, Krasnodar (RU)

2008

Art Reclaims Foreign Affairs -Artistic Statements from Europe and Beyond at the International Conference “New Paradigms, New Models – Culture in the EU’s External Relations” in Ljubljana (SI)

Technical support for the project:

Anatol Ruraс (junior)