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Anti -Utopia | Colta.ru
"Freedom is an opportunity to say that twice two to four."
George Orwell
The series “2+2 = 5, or Anti -Utopia” continues the cycle of photographs of Valery Nistratov , reflecting the state of transformation, changes and the spirit of the time of the new Russia.
Consciously “zombie” television, the author of this series travels to different regions of the country, trying to capture the state of affairs in modern Russia. The author discovers a world where the “positive”, which spills from the screens of the state of state with their total manipulation of the human consciousness, is increasingly beginning to resemble the atmosphere of Orwell novels.
Sometimes, as the hero of the novel “1984”, he tries to force himself to say that 2+2 = 5.
Plunging into the world of Russian life and sliding along its surface, Valery Nistratov is trying to find the main points and facets of universal insanity associated with the state of conflict with himself and the rest of the world, as well as to fix the visual image of the country invented in state media.