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Obscenity (version 1)

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Obscenity (version 1)

2010
paper
20'x20'x4'
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The motif of this installation Obscenity is an airplane Ohka, the first and the last airplane manufactured ever solely for suicidal attacks and actually employed in real battle. I titled this piece particularly form this line by Milan Kundera in his Immortality. "Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. This is the obscenity of war: the intimacy of mutually shed blood, the lascivious proximity of two soldiers who, eye to eye, bayonet each other." In this version of Obscenity, I hung the airplane so that it looked like crashing onto the floor and arranged the cardboard cut-out pieces that had left from the making of the airplane.

The project Obscenity was sponsored by McColl Center for Visual Art

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