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Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin

The Last Photon Leaving a Dying Star

Video 29.35 min, sound, metal screen, custom made furniture, steal sketchbook, photochromic UV colour drawings, butterfly, hand sewn gloves

2026

​​This speculative narrative from a deep future follows an archival infrastructural entity as it retrieves the fractured signals of a single date—September 1st—across the span of centuries. As the entity navigates the debris of past revolutions and wars, ecological warnings, and the intimate pulses of human life, it encounters a localized collapse: the data of September 1st, 20X6, has vanished. The narrative traces the entity’s attempt to process this void, eventually revealing that the day was not lost to the natural erosion of time, but systematically dissolved through a process of »weaponized forgetting.« In this installation environment, memory is no longer a natural inheritance but a governed system where the void and absence of documentation itself becomes the ultimate evidence of violence.

©Lesia Vasylchenko

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