LABYRINTH
"Labyrinth" is a video installation consisting of 50 fragments that are edited in a random order by a generative algorithm, creating a unique sequence of images each time. This work is a reflection on the theme of the human condition in the modern world, where familiar narrative structures disintegrate, giving way to rhizomatic, nonlinear forms of meaning-making.
On the screen, we see a figure wandering through endless corridors and alleys of a half-abandoned city. But this is not a purposeful journey from point A to point B, but rather a prolonged drift, movement for the sake of movement itself. The fragmentation and recombination of the narrative here become a metaphor for the contemporary life experience itself - the experience of navigating a world without clear landmarks and predetermined routes.
On the screen, we see a figure wandering through endless corridors and alleys of a half-abandoned city. But this is not a purposeful journey from point A to point B, but rather a prolonged drift, movement for the sake of movement itself. The fragmentation and recombination of the narrative here become a metaphor for the contemporary life experience itself - the experience of navigating a world without clear landmarks and predetermined routes.
The labyrinth here is not just an architectural structure but an ontological model, an image of being itself that has lost its teleological vector. The protagonist's wandering through the winding streets and dead ends becomes a metaphor for the existential search in the postmodern situation, when all "grand narratives" are subjected to radical doubt. In this world, any attempt to construct a coherent story, to acquire a stable identity, is doomed to failure, dissolving in the endless play of signifiers.
At the same time, "Labyrinth" is not a pessimistic diagnosis but rather an invitation to a new type of orientation. Rejecting the idea of a final destination, the installation offers an alternative model of existence - a model of nomadic drift, of movement that finds meaning in itself. Immersed in the meditative rhythm of the protagonist's wanderings, the viewer gradually discovers the special poetics of the labyrinth - the poetics not of goal but of process, not of attainment but of search.
Ultimately, "Labyrinth" is a work about the very nature of human experience in the postmodern era. An experience that is fragmentary, nonlinear, fundamentally incomplete. Through the deconstruction of familiar narrative patterns, the installation paradoxically invites us to find a home in the very situation of homelessness, to learn to dwell in the open space of meaning. And perhaps it is in this gesture of accepting our "thrownness" that the path to a new freedom and authenticity lies.
At the same time, "Labyrinth" is not a pessimistic diagnosis but rather an invitation to a new type of orientation. Rejecting the idea of a final destination, the installation offers an alternative model of existence - a model of nomadic drift, of movement that finds meaning in itself. Immersed in the meditative rhythm of the protagonist's wanderings, the viewer gradually discovers the special poetics of the labyrinth - the poetics not of goal but of process, not of attainment but of search.
Ultimately, "Labyrinth" is a work about the very nature of human experience in the postmodern era. An experience that is fragmentary, nonlinear, fundamentally incomplete. Through the deconstruction of familiar narrative patterns, the installation paradoxically invites us to find a home in the very situation of homelessness, to learn to dwell in the open space of meaning. And perhaps it is in this gesture of accepting our "thrownness" that the path to a new freedom and authenticity lies.
