The Weakness Against the Silence

Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents The Weakness Against the Silence an installation by Zhenya Plenchkina in collaboration with Misha Sklar of Vydavy Sindikat, curated by artist and OyG co-director Zahar Vaks. Apart, they can’t unmake the limited, concealed, idiosyncratic meaninglessness of war! The Weakness Against the Silence is an audio visual installation in which personal thoughts and feelings, muddled, mistaken for facts, looking at the intense despair from a safe distance, horrific shadows of fake news and propaganda, trajectory changing, mind raping, derailed, human nature, who do you stand with?… The show creates a visual landscape where number of questions, such as "what is it to be a witness? Is there a safe distance that makes you a witness and not participant?" These questions are brought to light with the background of current world affairs. Bold and frontal approach of presenting the work, makes "weakness " to be the most effective antidote to cruelty of silence.