“Dream production or what the modern media machine has to offer”

4.6.2024

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4.6.2024

The media create reality from the stream of images shot by journalists, videographers, photographers. But is this, like a vivid, nightmarish dream a reality? To find the answer to this question, each in their own way, was decided by Associated Press video journalist Mstislav Chernov and photographer Igor Chekachkov in the joint exhibition “Production of dreams or What the modern media machine offers”.

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The starting position of the exhibition is the debut novel of the international journalist Associated Press Mstislav Chernov “Dream Times”. The book lays down directions for reasoning, becomes a leading metaphor for talking about the constructed mass media reality. The dream becomes a misstatement, which allows you to interpret the reality around.

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Dreaming is perhaps the most obvious form of interaction with the first half of the exhibition. Video installation “Media machina” is a room in a room, a black cube, on each side of which are projected fragments from hundreds of videos shot by Mstislav Chernov over the past 5 years in more than 40 different countries: Syria, Iraq, Turkey, France, Belgium, Ukraine and others.

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Another part of the exhibition is NA4JOPM8, a series of photographs by Igor Chekachkov, whose photos have been published by Forbes, National Geographic, The Guardian, Le Monde and other international media. This series also combines images of fragments of reality from different spheres: from protest events on the Maidan in Kharkiv to intimate scenes from private life. However, their artistic image was completed by chance. The hard drive with serial number NA4JOPM8 on which the photos were stored was broken, and the archive was destroyed. Partially the photo was restored, but each image now contains a defect. The car intervened in the photographer's art. Destruction, deconstruction, took place in a certain way, which made it possible to combine photographs of different nature into one series.

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The union of the projects of the two artists is obvious. Media Machine, as an installation, is a form and metaphor of created reality, while the NA4JOPM8 series is a reflection on a reality that is disintegrating and deconstructing.