There are no evil people in the world
Lexi Fleurs x Nikol Goldman
shown at Lothringer 13, Munich as part of “ Antifascism:Now!”
“There Are No Evil People in the World” is a multimedia installation that confronts the moral dissonance of war through intercepted phone calls between russian soldiers and their families and colleagues. Using the aesthetic of sentimental souvenir postcards, the work juxtaposes souvenir imagery with transcribed confessions of war crimes committed during russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Content note:
The work incorporates unaltered documentations of war crimes.
Viewer discretion is advised.
Each postcard bears a fragment of these intercepted conversations, exposing the banality of brutality behind the façade of normalcy.
The title itself — a phrase echoing the widespread myth that russian soldiers are merely innocent victims of their regime — is used with biting irony, challenging viewers to reconsider notions of complicity and evil.
© Christian Kain & Lothringer 13 Halle
“There Are No Evil People in the World” feature found objects belonging to russian soldiers on the front line and are juxtaposed with the “postcards” the same soldiers sent back home.
Featured:
1. russian first aid kit, covered in blood, found near Pokrovsk
2. boots of a russian war criminal found at the mass gravesite in Izyum
3. helmet of a russian soldier found in Donbas
4. military pants of a russian war criminal found at the mass gravesite in Izyum
alongside the found objects are postcards in pairs - one featuring the quote of an intercepted conversation and one that gives the context to the quote.
For enquiries regarding this project — exhibition and screening requests, press, or reproduction of images — please contact: lexifleurs@gmail.com.
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