The artists talks about their work Copacul lui Gagarin, exhibited in the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. In the video, the Romanian philosopher Ovidiu Tichindeleanu visits what is left of the Gagarin Youth Center in Moldova. He encounters ruins of unrealized futures: promises of space travel blended with socialist utopia and colonized by liberal postcommunist thought and by time, which breaks glass, corrodes walls, allows plants to grow in cracks. The artist states: “In which of those futures are we?”
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