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#148 Mykola Ridnyi
Mykola Ridnyi’s activity balances between being an artist and filmmaker, curator and educator. He works across media ranging from early collective actions within the SOSka group to the amalgam of individual site-specific installations and sculptures. Nevertheless, moving image and photography cycles constitute the current focus of his practice. In recent films, he experiments with nonlinear montage, collage of documentary and fiction. Unpredictable connections and references characterize not only the visual style but a conceptual method of his work where little known historical events can be told through actions of modern youth and elements of international pop culture. His way of reflecting social and political reality draws on the contrast between fragility and resilience of individual stories and collective histories [read on]