2024 / Installation / Bubble wrap, acrylic, paper roll
This installation is dedicated to the Serebryansky Forest. In the past, this area was covered with tall pines, and one could hear the voices of children from summer camps. Today, the ground is covered with craters and traces of shell explosions. This work creates a dialogue between the past, the present, and an uncertain future.
Through the symbolism of the forest and the use of a material with an evidently fragmented structure, the interplay between memory, history, and identity is explored. The bubble wrap symbolizes, on the one hand, displacement and transience, and on the other, the process of fragmentation and the restoration of memories. For my installation, I use a material that normally serves only as a shell to protect the content it encloses. Through the act of cutting and filling this foil, the loss of the material and the presence of only the ephemeral — such as memories, thoughts, feelings, etc. — are reflected. As a result, Der Geistwald appears as a feeling, a memory engraved into a pixelated image of a forest on a fragile foil.
