Polina Isurin

Polina Isurin

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  • Paintings
  • Installations
    • ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
      • Text & Photo Documentation
      • Ethical Manipulations- Video Projection
      • Justice- Video Projection
    • Rootlessness
      • Text & Photo Documentation
      • Rootlessness recording
    • Buried Secret (Obelisk for the Future)
    • Azores, Portugal
  • Writings, Videos, Mixed Media
    • Mixed Media
    • Writings
      • Obelisk for the Future
      • The (Un) Consumable
      • XY
      • Dокuмент [x] along with artwork 'Nonfunctional Green Card for The Gulf War'
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  • Community Murals
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Constructed wooden obelisk, marbleized in acrylic paint, and buried in the ground under sheet of glass.

“For once we assign monumental form to memory, we have to some degree divested ourselves of the obligation to remember…

...the counter-monument thus flouts any number of cherished memorial conventions: its aim is not to console but to provoke; not to remain fixed but to change; not to be everlasting but to disappear; not to be ignored by its passersby but to demand interaction; not to remain pristine but to invite its own violation and desecration; not to accept graciously the burden of memory but to throw it back at the town’s feet.”

                                                                       James E. Young