EYE/VIEW x REX Box October

6.–30 October 2022, daily, 13:30 to 24:00

Kassenhaus des Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern.

October 2022

Artists: Sergey Bratkov, Copa & Sordes, Marina Dykukha, Olia Fedorova, Maksym Khodak, Mykola Ridnyi.

Curated by Dr Andrea Domesle.

In view of the war, the annual curatorial concept of Eye/View acquired a highly-topical dimension: observing and being observed became situations that now affect everyone to an extraordinary degree. We made this threat more visible in the second part of the cycle. The video works by Yana Bachynska, Sergey Bratkov, Marina Dykukha, Olia Fedorova, Alina Kleytman, Maksym Khodak and Mykola Ridnyi have proven to be a prediction of war and testify to a life in fear and danger. The gaze regimes that are revealed in the videos revolve around: following, monitoring, focusing, remembering and the unexpected breaking out of the blue. Here history plays an important role.