Vova Vorotniov / WARning

The installation deals with the visual signs and fears connected with war. In Ukrainian society the evidences of close and contemporary war were strongly visible since the beginning, after the collapse of Soviet Union. The veterans of Afghanistan campaign had been omnipresent and flickering with their camouflage uniforms, medals and amputated limbs by appearing at the public combatant meetings, state holidays or by being the street beggars. As the new war has erupted, closer than ever, at the Eastern frontier in Ukraine, the new concerns and anxiety had been emerged. The new traumatic effects were alarmingly actualized in the same old symbols. The WARNING, as a public sign, is touching the notions of time and memory with simple, stripped from spare aesthetization and complication, chord. Memorization is linked as to the past as to the future, while being located in now, in the present everyday experience. In Poland such naked statement could charge the public awareness with concerns about what is going on in not that distant regions and of what we can’t be insured anymore.