Installation by Ukrainians at Burning Man in Nevada made Americans cry

On August 25, a contemporary art festival opened in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Burning Man. Ukraine presented the powerful installation I'm Fine. The sculpture from war artifacts was created by Ukrainian artist Alexey Say and founder of the Ukrainian Witness media project Vitaly Deinega. In total, a team of 25 people worked on I'm Fine, writes Vogue.

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The installation, weighing 10 tons and 7 meters high, was created from real war artifacts collected in the territories liberated from the Russian occupiers. Shot through street signs, solar panels, satellite dishes, broken signs with city names, fences pierced by shrapnel and bullets. From these debris, artist Alexey Sai created an installation in the form of the phrase “I’m Fine,” which plays on the Ukrainians’ response to the polite question “how are you?”

According to Vitaly Deinega, most of the bullet-ridden and torn debris included “Pedestrian crossing” signs.

“There are only twelve of them. “This speaks to the people killed by the Russians at the beginning of the war simply for crossing the road or riding a bicycle to do their business,” he wrote on his Facebook page. – There are two signs “Caution, children!” One of them was filmed near a school in the Kherson region, which was completely destroyed by the Russians.”

The work of Alexey Say demonstrates to the world the consequences of armed aggression, which led to the destruction of more than 2024 libraries, theaters, art and educational centers. 334 cultural institutions were completely destroyed and cannot be reconstructed. The artist hopes that through his installation, festival-goers will be able to feel the full scale of the huge number of human stories behind these signs. According to the Ukrainian team, the installation was received very emotionally at the Burning Man festival. Many, touching the sharp edges of the sculpture, cried.

@dorechi.media 🇺🇦 A sculpture by Ukrainian artist Oleksiy Say was presented at the Burning Man festival. The sculpture is inspired by an ironic meme and creates the great inscription I'M FINE with the deteriorated Russian cools and projectiles of street signs, parkans and screams. #burningman #oleksiysay #artist #sculptor ♬ original sound - Do Speech

Every year, the Burning Man festival attracts about 80 people from all over the world. This year it runs from August 000 to September 25.

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