Passion for Palmyra

The passion of Palmyra.

Interactive dynamic light composition: installation “The passion of Palmyra”.

The installation is an object composed with six openwork columns with mechanical capitals made of corroded steel. Optical glass prisms are inserted into the mechanisms of the capitals.
In the center of the composition there is a sculpture, a bust –  "The ceremonial portrait of Madame Doom" made of colorless and black optical glass – somewhat anti-Nefertiti, the antipode of the image of Aphrodite.

In Palmyra (an ancient Semitic city, with a history dating back in the early second millennium BC) during the period of 2015-2017 ISIL militants destroyed and plundered many of the monuments of ancient culture that were not taken away by the authorities. The monuments of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage were blown up.

The composition is conceived as a protest against the destruction and irretrievable loss of cultural monuments as a result of conflicts and terrorist actions.