V I C T O R Y D A Y S P E C I A L P R O J E C T
P H O T O S B Y V I T A L Y K I M
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Lost Childhood by Marat Morik (Prague)
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Memorandum – city decoration for 75th anniversary of the Victory Day. A competition among artists, illustrators and designers supervised by project curators aiming at comprehension of importance and reflection on Great Patriotic War Victory Day as viewed by today generations, implementation of ideas by means of contemporary practices of creative communities.
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Marat is originally from Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, for a few years he has been living and working in Prague, Czech Republic. Throughout his career he has been one of the most important figures of Russian contemporary art, he is an active participant of international festivals and exhibitions.
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His work is done in collage style. It reflects the events occurred on the home front, young people and children doing hard work instead of adults. The story is about lost childhood, toys put off when everybody contributed to the outcome of the day. Character-building of veterans and their successors is the Great Victory heritage.< >
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The work plot can be viewed from top to bottom: this way the released balloons symbolize veterans and warriors who passed away, very young girls are the main characters who had to grow up fast putting off their toys, a kid’s drawing of a soldier, soil layers as some kind of archives and subsoils which we inherited from our predecessors.
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Memory stays in our personal memories, our language, our culture and the memory of the soil, layer after layer keeping the things occurred on its surface and safeguarding it for future generations. Our skills and experience should be passed to future generations, experience of mistakes and successes serving the common good.
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