Aleksiej
Cecocho

The March is a sort of study of the relative presentation of events by the media that forms post-truth. Every screen becomes another television channel presenting the behaviour of a set of points in a different way. And the viewer becomes involved in the events, whether they want it or not. Their role in them depends on the station: they can be aggressors, victims of violence or indifferent passers-by. Every “channel” speaks to us in an incomprehensible bubble framed in a completely random, derivative and abstract language of visual communication. The March has no beginning or end; each move is followed by another. It also has no specific purpose, seeming to exist only for the media presenting it in various shades. The March was inspired by Ryszard Radzik’s words: ‘Different truths are one remote click away from one another; they differ not only in the
evaluation of facts, but also in the very fact of their existence.’

The painting series Post-reality: a study of alignment is in a way a visual story about this connection. It is a subjective narrative of the author about his anxieties and fears resulting from the fact that people absolutely lose themselves in the synthetic world that humanity has created for itself. In a world where virtually everything is deconstructed, and things reconstructed from semantic elements are unstable and entirely relative. Today we float in an unstable mass consisting of contexts, falsehood, understatements and uncertainties. This is accompanied by information bubbles that are responsible for the growing polarisation of society. Post-reality: a study of alignment shows the author’s emotional attitude to the situation, in which humanity starts to lose the ground beneath its feet due to technological progress.