Modified reconstruction of the model of Monument to Three Revolutions: 1825, 1905, and 1917 by Vasyl Yermilov and melted cups found in the ruins of a house destroyed by artillery strikes in the city of Lysychansk, Donbas. In Nikita Kadan’s hands, Vasyl Yermilov’s monument to three revolutions is neutralised and sterilised, becoming a theatre for an autopsy. What is left after the death of the utopianism, universality and liberatory ethos of the Soviet project? Amputated fragments of the lives of ordinary people in the Donbas, whose destroyed homes constituted the newest layer of modernity’s ruins. This layer also demands our interrogation, lest it becomes so much meaningless rubble.

READING THE RUINS OF THE FUTURE, Uilleam Blacker, 2021; for the catalogue of the show 'Stone Hits Stone' at PinchukArtCentre, 2021
Produced with the support of Waterside Contemporary and Grad Gallery, London, and Transit Gallery, Mechelen
Collection of mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien