SOFIIA YESAKOVA

PEOPLE IN PARADISE WILL ENJOY THE SPECTACLE OF HELL'S TORMENT _____ 21.05.2024 – 07.07.2024

Antwerp art box, Antwerp, BEL

The site-specific installation is built on contradictions: the sensual experience of being and the indifferent calculation of data. According to statistics, 90% of the information in today's digital space was produced within the last two years. Every day, new symptoms of information overload emerge. Truth, lost in a stream of noise, becomes barely perceptible; it is increasingly difficult to discern what is “true” and what is “false.” The chaotic consumption of news leads to informational blindness. The thinking individual's primary task is to resist the emotional manipulation and cognitive control exerted by new media.

A transparent curtain, fastened with screws, symbolizes the apparent accessibility of information and the illusion of freedom of choice. Yet it simultaneously reveals the impossibility of reaching truth or verifying its accuracy. Control over information flows and the creation of biased media content have become tools for reshaping individual consciousness and steering public opinion. We live in an era dominated by the illusion of informational abundance. Even security has become a mirage.

And yet, beneath this fragile veil of transparency lies a profound void. We are drowning in data but starving for meaning. The relentless flood of “information” blinds us. The so-called freedom of choice is a carefully orchestrated illusion, each option scripted, each narrative controlled. This is the tragedy of our time: the collapse of knowledge into noise, the death of truth in the digital abyss. We are both prisoners and wardens of this prison. To think freely is to confront the emptiness behind the curtain.

Curated by Erik Haemers

Text by Sofiia Yesakova

Solo exhibition

Cargo 200. Experimental projections on surfaces. 1.5., 40 × 10 × 10 cm, Acrylic, gesso, gelatin, wooden board, 2024. Close-up