IRON CURTAIN
Sculpture installation by Vlad Goldakovskiy
Exhibition; Roots and Polen, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Year: 2020
Photo: Andrey Michailov
CONCEPT:
I was born in USSR. Iron curtain - is the place where i am from.
Maybe, one can say, that my roots were fenced by Iron Curtain.
At any rate for a while.
My family wanted so much to get rid of that curtain. My identity, my
views and dreams - had to be opened to a free world.
What is I am - at last received the freedom of development. We got
rid of material borders, but we have gained the inner ones.
Countries are changing. I live in a modern world. I can go and take
roots where i want. Changing with the world freely.
But how much freely?
I speak with the voice of the broadcaster. I think in a way they tell
me to think. I hate those that are indicated by the media.
I feel, the Iron Curtain is here again. It looks like i can choose and
do what i want, but can i choose what to want?
Iron Curtain is here. Globaly. It is completely controlling me, even
more than back there in my childhood.
DESCRIPTION:
Iron Curtain - is the sculpture installation which can be exposed in a
gallery space, as well as in the open air public spaces.
Sculpture consists of the wall of metal TV sets and screens which can be
installed in a different combinations according to a space.
gallery space, as well as in the open air public spaces.
Sculpture consists of the wall of metal TV sets and screens which can be
installed in a different combinations according to a space.
Metal TV sets from corten steel, rusted metal are to be installed on
existing wall of the exposition which will imitate the traditional way of
the TV installation.
The installation is accompanied by play backs of the audio performances
of the modern politicians.
The viewers are hearing mounted voice of Winston Churchill, from his
historical speech on the Iron Curtain in 1946. Also - the voice of Donald
Trump, Zelenskiy, Poroshenko, Putin and others. You can hear the
mounted sound playbacks from the TV news all over the world - CNN,
FOX NEWS, News 1+1.
