In her work AntiGonna takes a very personal outlook on the ongoing war in Ukraine and her own position in it. In Lost in Freedom she wanders naked i.e. completely vulnerable and stripped of social status on the ruins in Kyiv, Bucha, Irpyn, Hostomel and Borodyanka. Her tender body at times collapses into a hologram, as if splitting between her two personalities – a human being Oksana and an artist AntiGonna. Hollowed out, devastated, unrooted she murmurs сurses and spells, or maybe it’s the delusion of a person who spent several days under rubble or groans from the other world. It doesn’t matter anymore God or Devil; someone has to come save us by whatever means necessary. However, her roaming and numbering might also be interpreted as an act of catharsis, the only way to break through and one day in the future make peace with the painful past. One day, not today.

From the project Curse to the rusi_A.

Anti Gonna (production AntiGonStaff) was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine (1986 September). An independent filmmaker, artist and trash model. Works in the genre of experimental video art, photography and VR. Under the pseudonym, explores taboo topics like fear in the form of altered sexuality, aggression and perversions, which later can manifests itself in the brutal violence. But the main goal in the art is to show the rituals that neutralize all horror of existence, turning it to not scary any more and simple way to overcome traumatic experience. https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/antigonna/