Olga Krykun

Remembering the Old World

MFA Show
Hala č. 13, Prague,
18. 6. – 28. 6. 2021

StartPoint Prize 2021,
Galerie Hybernská, Prague
3. – 22. 12. 2021

clay vases, local flowers and objects ikebana

Sad Paradise Resort ***,
video, 02:12

Remembering the old world,
and fascinated by the new one.
The old cozy anonymous world,
and a new world under total surveillance.
Childhood in a city without a supermarket,
maturity in the search for organic produce.
Childhood in the glittery souvenir shop,
maturity in the fine art institution.
Childhood playing with decorative dolphin snow globe,
maturity living in a sterile IKEA interior.
Childhood under the order of authority,
maturity in the power of personal will.
Childhood in the post soviet vacancy,
maturity in the Western void.
Childhood in the new naive capitalism,
maturity in the old, crumbling one.
Trying to remember the old world,
I will remember the new one.
Trying to remember a transition.
Trying to point out a change.
Trying to understand the present.
Trying to understand myself.