Human project. “Fear” version”. №14

Version Fear" as well as the other works from the series  "Human project" is based on the stories borrowed from mass media. Mass media is becoming the weapon of amnesia, the instrument of memory loss. Messages are following one another, news about bloodsheds is being interrupted by heavenly commercials. The flow of information is the Lethe of our time, the source of oblivion. Anesthetization, needed to forget, to loose the ability of making your own judgments. The news decides for you, what is good and what is not. Television aesthetics, regardless of reality, makes us take someone’s side, thanks to good editing and other manipulation techniques, imposes the "right" position upon the viewer. 

The emotions are predictable. Fear is being fabricated. Fear is being performed. Fear is playing back. The event is deleted. Kerim Ragimov writes his own version of fear. He writes about the human fear and fear for the Human project. He meticulously reproduces the image which is disappearing into the past. This is the image of mass media itself, the source of fear longing for natural and technological catastrophes, local wars and terrorist acts. 

Text: from an article by Olesya Turkina and Victor Mazin