An experimental video work in which the artist explores the interaction of Soviet architecture and mass culture as tools of military and political propaganda used by the Institute of Power. A dialogue between the past and the future, which risks never coming. And how the government’s choices of the present are integrating into the imperial or federal or quasi-federal institutions, becoming, again, an instrument for power. And the government, in turn, is known to be trying to slow down social development.

When The Hawk Comes is a sad, poetic metaphor for what is happening in the world today. In the short video, the plot and melody of an Armenian lullaby are taken as a starting point, when a mother tries to calm her son by offering to make a symbolic choice of a destiny bird. The boy does not choose peaceful birds, nightingale, or magpie. His predictable choice is a warlike hawk.

Bio

Lilia Li-Mi-Yan (1971) and Katherina Sadovsky (1985) are a duo of Russian artists who have been working together since 2016, now based in Yerevan, Armenia.  Their diverse approach to art practice encompasses art media such as video, CGI, 3D, sculpture, photography, AI, installation, sound, site-specific practices.

In their projects, Li-Mi-Yan and Sadovsky explore questions of the future, ecology, the relationship between humans and Nature, the possibilities of human interaction and connection with other forms of existence.