PEOPLE IN PARADISE WILL ENJOY THE SPECTACLE OF HELL'S TORMENT  _____ 21.05.24 - 07.07.24

Antwerp art box, Antwerp, BEL

The site-specific installation is built on contradictions. Sensual experience of being and indifferent calculation. According to statistics, 90% of the data existing now in the information space were produced in the last 2 years . Every day new symptoms of information overload are discovered truth in the stream of noise becomes barely visible, it becomes more and more difficult to analyse ‘true’ or ‘false’ ideas. Disorderly consumption of news leads to information blindness. The main task of the thinking individual is to escape from the affective impact and manipulation of new media on consciousness.

A transparent curtain fastened with screws shows the accessibility of information, a sense of freedom of choice at a first glance, but also the impossibility of accessing the truth and verifying its veracity control of information flow, creation of only biased materials for media space, all this is a tool for gradual change of citizens’ personality and is also a mechanism for controlling the general opinion we live in an age of illusion of information availability. Security is also an illusion.