This work is a part of the cycle about large-scale geopolitical upheavals: military conflicts, pandemics, protest waves, remaking of the world order, cultural revolutions–by way of example of the turbulent times in the Eastern European region. The project incorporates found images and methodological approaches from other cycles such as Social Marble, We Are Stern Consumers of Cultural Revolutions, and Border-Gap, which also examine the context of historical and cultural layering and the topic of faults and borders. This cycle presents mental landscapes in the context of current news nervous storylines. Different imagery collides in the works–geometric plates are layered on different backgrounds depicting landscapes and spaces. Taking the ideas of avant-garde art of the 1920s as a basis, the artist has transferred abstract forms into the context of the realistic, the twilight, the romantic and the expressionistic, creating an atlas of images of colossal transformations in culture, politics and, more broadly, human consciousness. Geometric layers thicken in the twilight air, foreboding threats or freedoms: what are these ghostly plates? The romantic tradition is dissected here, as German composer Christoph Ogermann reinterprets the romantic canon specifically for the video work, drawing on the operas of Sibelius.

Sergey Shabohin – director, cameraman, editing, concept.

Christoph Ogiermann – сomposer and lyricist.

Musical composition: SORRY MAM_Tectonics_Electronic Improvisation.

Texted and com-posed by Christoph Ogiermann, 2021–2023.

With the voices of Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and parts of MULTIeTUDE 2b played and sung by LENsemble Vilnius and the public of the concert.

Commissioned by platformB, project of Musik der Jahrhunderte, premiered at ECLAT festival new music Stuttgart.