
There Has Been a Terrible Mistake
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2023, mixed media installation, found Soviet-era desk, chair, scattered archival materials (documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, collages), printed matter, reproduction of Erik Bulatov’s DANGER/ОПАСНО, laptop (MacBook Air), wall-mounted works (mixed media on paper),
Nikolay Karabinovych's installation There Has Been a Terrible Mistake recreates the abandoned office of a diplomat whose death, officially termed a "tragic incident," remains unexplained.
A worn Soviet-era green desk holds scattered papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and collages—alongside a modern MacBook Air that jolts past into present.
On the walls hang fragments of surveillance, personal memory, and a reproduction of Erik Bulatov's DANGER/ОПАСНО.
The viewer becomes an unwitting detective, sifting through evidence that can never reach a conclusion. The title itself echoes a Soviet-era euphemism for state violence, linking historical terror to contemporary political ambiguity.




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