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Within the context of the immense polarity of contemporary reactions to the events from 1917 – analyzing and/or critiquing, glorifying and/or full of irony, satirizing and/or diminishing, this exhibition project is widening the notion of “exhibition art” by introducing cinema and TV documentary material. The movie October (1927) by Sergei Eisenstein is still one of the most powerful propaganda artworks, which has defined what the October Revolution supposedly “looked like”. It is in dialogue with the video documentation from the regular public readings by volunteers of lists with the names of victims of the Stalinist terror which happens annually in Moscow in front of the ex-KGB building on the Day of the Memory of the Victims of Political Repressions.
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