Obscure
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, 2022
OBSCURE is a durational installation combining physical objects, sound, and a virtual NFT component. It explores the shifting threshold between visibility and disappearance — between what can be witnessed and what remains concealed. The work examines how systems of power shape perception, and how language and image construct the boundaries of the permissible and the unspeakable.
A line from Joseph Brodsky’s Less Than One (1976) — “It is a big room with three rows of desks, a portrait of the Leader on the wall behind the teacher’s chair, a map with two hemispheres, of which only one is legal...” — serves as an entry point. Within this imagined classroom, the installation unfolds as an act of quiet resistance: a fog-filled geometry, divided by a glimmering plane of artificial light that both reveals and obscures. The digital element, existing simultaneously inside and outside the physical space, questions what it means to hold or transmit memory within a mediated world.
Through the interplay of tangible and virtual layers, OBSCURE creates a state of suspension — a space where presence and absence coexist, and where the viewer is invited to navigate between obedience and imagination, between reality and its shadow.
Presented at Raum für dratische Maßnahmen, Berlin, 16-30 April 2022.
Idea and realisation: Ksenia Ravvina, Mihaela Dobreva & Alexandar Hadjiev


