This video reflects on the concept of a cancelled future. Following the collapse of the USSR, the people in post-Soviet states found themselves stripped of the hope for a future, the envisioned bright communist future for which a collective sacrifice was justified and expected.
The video begins with a quote from Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, and then progresses to show traffic lights continuously displaying repeating numbers, asking whether the image of a future is at all possible.
_equilirbium, excerpt, 8 min, 2016
The work has been shown in: Changes: A Study of Time, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, 2016; Internal Memory - Not Enough Space? Video programme Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017; and Suns and Neons Above Kazakhstan, YARAT | Centre for Contemporary Art, Baku, 2017.
