The aim of the project was to create monumental objects that should be located in the digital space of Slavutych, which is an example of village development, i.e. a "city for life." The residential buildings of medium height and numerous human-sized buildings for sports, education, leisure, and domestic needs in the midst of a real forest leave little room for the pathos of statehood. Therefore, the virtual placement of monumental objects in the anthropometric dimension should demonstrate the dissonance between the official ideology and the ideology of humanism. Object: Architecture, the general environment of the city of Slavutych Subject: Replicated sculptural compositions of the Soviet era, monumental examples of other imperial traditions, and creative allusions to the theme - all these elements are incompatible with everyday life and should create an unprecedented visualization of the apotheosis. The more it seeks to raise society to cosmic goals, the more it detaches it from the present. Therefore, many artistic references outside of the discourse that caused them to appear (labour or combat victories and suffering) lose their meaning over time, just as generations lose their common memory. Consequently, monumental works are increasingly becoming symbolic, acquiring a new semantics in a new dimension of time.
Victor Griza
Lizaveta Zigura
Kateryna Ray
APOTHEOSIS OF EMPIRE
