“Dreamers”. SOSka (Ukraine)
A multymedia installation, created by a group of young Ukrainian artists, includes video, five 1×1.5m photos and also a show case with a photographic record of the project development process. Oleksandr Solovyov is a curator of the exhibition.
The Dreamers project is a survey presenting a new type of characters — young people whose individualities hide behind the shield of a teen subculture they belong to. The project’s protagonists are Kyiv “emo” teenagers that emerge before the viewers in two different appearances. On the photos they are portrayed flying, suspended in the air, as if they have been cut out from the social relations system. On the video screen they come into view one by one, shouting out some kind of slogans / complaints.
This is a metaphoric reflection of the today’s society existence. A state of insecurity and fragility defines the post-Soviet reality in the new millennium, reality that has replaced the solid pessimism of the previous decade. Doubting personal political convictions and living in the phantom-like economy — so typical for the modern Ukrainian society — defines an infantile dreamer category among the young generation. Talking about their interests, just like at the TV casting, the young people subconsciously represent members of a group that muck about aimlessly; the revolutionaries expressing no objections.
