No Exit

The goal of this exhibition is to expose some acute social paradoxes, to question the issue of collective and cultural identity, the notion of a fellow human as an alien, and the policies based on fearmongering.
The centrepiece is a spatial representation of a social paradox. It’s demonstrating a phenomenon that by following the impulses and applying simple solutions to achieve imminent goals we can find ourselves in a quite opposite situation than we anticipated and intended.
It’s an interactive installation consisting of eight ordinary gates arranged in a shape of swastika. The gates are all closed at the beginning, and the spectator/subject is free to approach it from all directions. If spectator/subject try to open the gates he’s facing, one after the other, and leave them open, he will end up trapped inside a rectangular space enclosed by open gates.
This paradox that opening gates could get you captured is a reminder that reality is too complex to comply to simple answers, and that a chain of simple solutions usually leads to a counterintuitive ends.