DESTRUCTION OF OBJECTS

Video, Photo, Installation, 2019
In collaboration with Mitya Churikov

Harri Kraievets & Mitya Churikov’s collaboration was inspired by deconstructivist symbolism, visual language, and decorative elements. Based on the methods of object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism, the artists studied the interaction of objects in the urban landscape. Permanent psychogeographical journeys by the same street, taking place during several years, have become the outcome of this research. For the first time in Ukraine, the authors presented film clips and photographic material made during this long-lasting work.

Their research is concentrated around the object, failing ever more because of the liberalisation of its symbiosis. In art and history, the object turns into a parody of itself because of being boiled down to specific formulas accessible to anyone. The duo attempts to revitalize the objects that were thrown away, lost their primary function and idea, becoming weird and unusable. In this work, there are elements of the so-called Anthropocene, I.e. objects containing humanity as their crucial component. Trying to find something human in the lonely objects, the artists make an attempt to wake them up, instigating a rebellion against the non-humane attitude people show to the things they consider waste.