The Story about the City where two colours Disappeared
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2023, HD video, sound, color and black and white, 18’53”
Special soundtrack by Yuriy Gurzhy
In Nikolay Karabinovych's film, inspired by Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, shows 3 days of a protagonist's life in a typical European city, the blue-yellow colours slowly disappear. The image fades, turning grey. This is how the artist highlights how Ukraine's visibility within the European context continues to decrease. The video shows quite clearly how changing the parts affects the whole. The colours of the Ukrainian flag fade, symbolising disappearance — in the information space and on the geopolitical map — giving rise to a new, colourless reality.
Street footage from an unnamed European city in which all shades of blue and yellow have been digitally removed points to how solidarity with Ukraine is fading as new wars and conflicts take hold of our collective attention.
Karabinovych refers to the dwindling presence of Ukrainian solidarity flags on European institutional buildings and documents urban scenes marked by this very peculiar wear-and-tear effect.
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