MADE IN CYLAND

Our entire life is a struggle. It may take the form of a simple boxing match, or the struggle for daily bread (or vegetables) in the Soviet era, when customers would stand in line for ages at the greengrocer, with cheerful songs blaring from а loudspeaker, and the vendor would try to cheat them on the dirty old scales with rusty weights. In this installation, the viewer is given the chance to take the situation under control: by moving weights from scale to scale, to change the song, to reach a desired balance, and possibly even to emerge victorious from the fight with the vendor, who with every shortchanged gram undermined the struggling Soviet consumer.