Nikita Kadan. Spectators series. 2016

Series Description

The double black “masks” on the faces featured in the Spectators series seem to transmit darkness both inside and outside. By refusing to wander in one’s own private darkness, an individual gains a chance at collective numbness in the face of the the darkness that gazes back at us [1].

Stone Hits Stone, exhibition view, 2021, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv

Stone Hits Stone, exhibition view, 2021, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv

Kadan’s Spectators, by highlighting the historical and ideological situatedness of avant-garde cultural production, shows not heroic memory against power, but covert forgetting as a personal survival tactic [2].

1. Mishchenko, K. To Wake Up Before Yesterday Comes // Kadan, N. Stone Hits Stone. — Kyiv: PinchukArtCentre Research Platform, 2021. — 80 p.
2. Blacker, U. Reading the Ruins of the Future // Kadan, N. Stone Hits Stone. — Kyiv: PinchukArtCentre Research Platform, 2021. — 80 p.