A new art installation has replaced the monument to Alexander Pushkin, which was dismantled as part of decommunization and decolonization policies. The project's authors set themselves the task of creating a work that revealed the well-known "cognitive dissonance" - a state when a person experiences joyful emotions and questions their own self-representation.
This was the assessment given to her creation by designer Roksolana Dudka, whose installation "Rocket" was installed instead of a bust of the Russian poet.
She explained that the object is a "complex allusion" to missiles installed on playgrounds during the Soviet era.
"The object is a complex allusion to the archetypal form of a rocket, which refers us to Soviet playgrounds - a phenomenon that is found today in the urban landscapes of Ukrainian cities. Such a construction causes visual-cognitive dissonance in the context of modern Ukrainian reality, where rockets and shelling have become an instrument of daily genocide by the Russian military against the civilian population of Ukraine," Dudka said.
