Still image, SOSka Group, Barter, 2007, DVD-Video, 6:54 min
Mykola Riydni, together with fellow artists Ann Krivenzova
and Sergey Popov, calling themselves SOSka Group (Ukrainian artist collective),
they for example wear masks of the most famous politicians in Ukraine and
panhandle on streets and the subway. It’s a not-so-subtle hint that political
promises of change are impoverished. The video above is called ‘Barter’, in which the value of art is
negotiated as the artists exchange a Cindy Sherman reproduction for a live
chicken.
Links:
http://slaggallery.com/exhibitions/17/artwork/98
http://art.newcity.com/2008/09/09/eastern-unorthodox-artists-in-search-of-a-post-soviet-ukrainian-reality/
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