IRA EDUARDOVNA
Roulette, 2009
My video work in the last few years has dealt with re-constructed memories of autobiographical nature that are relevant to our collective experience. I examine issues of migration and identity in flux.
Roulette explores the fundamental elements of Soviet education that encouraged the individual to exhibit self-control, discipline, hard work, obedience and conformism.
In Roulette the female figures perform a repetitive and somewhat Sysiphian action and never reach catharsis. The action fails to produce and is enhanced by the fateful and compulsive repetition. It therefore carries the death drive within it.
