Concept2048 : Project iLLUSiON OF REALiTY

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players...”

W. Shakespeare

Why do we neglect the important and truly valuable in order to achieve the unimportant little things that, if they have any value at all, are only here and now and only for someone in the singular?

What is our life? And what does it represent on the scale of the universe? Why do we put our own selves above the well-being of the ecosystem in which we live?

We selfishly consume and dominate what life gives us. We dominate today despite the fact that tomorrow we will inevitably be thrown off the throne of seeming greatness, despite the fact that our tomorrow may not come.

And even as we understand the illusory, deceitful and dualistic nature of our existence, we continue on the path of losing touch with nature, with the very thing that gave us life.

We often find it difficult to find the line between real life and the illusion we have created for ourselves. We live, we survive, we make deals with our conscience, and we strive in every way to improve our lives without even thinking that our reality is actually an ILLUSION.

Credits

Art direction / Style

Ekaterina Perekopskaya

Photo / Video / Music

Rostyslav Brenych

Invited Artists

MUAH

Varvara Dediukhina

Photo Retouch

Helen River

Set exhibition design

Irina Larionova

Models

Emma Fuhrmann
Johanna Ernst
FIFTH Models

Place of exhibition

Gallery LOCAL, Barcelona, Spain

Masks

Oleh Pasternak