Danila Tkachenko

The project Monuments researches the boundaries of historical memory, the area between fact and fiction. As in the case of
political regimes in general, every single one of us is individually inclined to exploit images of the past to meet our current needs
or future goals. We come up with new interpretations and build additional structures to manipulate images of past history.
I erect on abandoned historical sites lightweight structures in abstract modernist shapes, transforming a historical ruin into a
contemporary site and thereby imitating the position on history assumed by the powers that be.
During the filming not a single site suffered. At the end of the work, all the decorations were dismantled.