2020
Psychosis
The project is a visual series of 10 works that illustrate the experience of a person feeling like they are going crazy. Each work corresponds to a different stage in the progression of psychosis, and they are arranged in a sequence. Additionally, the project also discusses the concept of Nietzsche's "Eternal Return" as a potential repetition of any event an infinite number of times, which can be seen as both Freudian "obsessive repetition" and Lacanian interaction with the "Real," manifested through obsession as a defense mechanism against the foreclosed object.
- "A hunch" - a sudden feeling of excitement, a premonition of an upcoming psychic tsunami.
- The alarm - the sense of the imminent destruction, the growing fear, that the real thing is coming.
- "Where are you hiding?" Paranoia, a feeling of impending agony, searching for the cause of fear, the search for who is the source of the alarm, searching for the enemy.
- "Beautiful madness." The stage of splitting. The visible part of reality fails, and the same image begins to repeat and spread throughout perception. The subject falls into a trap. Reality does not unfold before him in the usual way and perspective, but it "freezes" and "repetitions", "multiples".
- "One to one" - the takeover, the disintegration of the subject.
- "Remnants of the sky." The connection with reality is lost, and the subject disappears.
- "This is a dead end." The subject, temporarily emerging from unconsciousness, sees darkness instead of the usual reality. Confused, he takes a step back and finds himself facing a dark wall - a dead end.
- "Not behind the living darkness, but before the dead light." The subject turns around and sees a small fragment of reality.
- "Landscape + landscape = 3 landscapes." This small part of reality begins to malfunction and revolve around itself, creating a psychic tsunami that completely consumes the subject. The subject gives up and disappears.
- "This star casts a shadow." The birth of a psychotic star as the culmination of a psychological condition.
The video was the final work of a course on recombinant video at the Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria. This video uses methods of using databases, forming a video series on demand, editing frames, and creating sounds of a series.
The theme of the video was the state of the psyche — paranoia. In this case, paranoia is in the form of delusions of persecution.