In 1986 Ukraine faced with the realistic possibility of the extinction of the human race. Today, the barrier that closes off the containment area at Chernobyl seems like an ancient portal to some kind of mysterious oracle’s temple, something that can show us the future, an image of the world without men.
Anyway, this knowledge, this sense of disappearance, is something deeply rooted, a sort of strange, disturbing gift that has affected the whole country and its citizens. In many cities or villages one can clearly perceive that there is a defective flow of time. Time seems slower than everywhere else or sometimes it seems to run outside of its usual mechanism. Odesa looks like a piece of land that has been shipwrecked in time.
This peculiar way of perceiving time and a place with no horizon like the Kuyalnyk Lake work like devices activating some sort of prophetic vision about the destiny of mankind.
What is shown is an image of the world after the end of human history. Not a dramatic image, but a vision of extraordinary beauty, where water and sky melt together, birds and nature proliferate in a new harmonic balance. What remains of the short passage of mankind are not the ruins of old buildings that have already shown their fragility, but something that still flows: the perpetual electric breath of nuclear energy that keeps the streetlights on, even if nobody can see them.
