PROPAGANDA SERIES, 2023-2024
I have recently begun working on a new body of work that explores how propaganda and misinformation function in our news cycle and society at large. As someone who grew up in Soviet Union, I am used to the absence of information and government censorship; accustomed that the official party line or versions of reality that were passed down from the ‘above’ but not believed by anyone. Now the utopian democratization of information has birthed a new dystopia where information is plentiful and abundant but is so confusing and contradictory that one must be able to navigate their way through a sea of post-truths, deepfakes, and the smorgasbord of conspiracy theories to arrive at their version of objectivity.
