-1 Digital Lab
Multimedia installation, Philipp Groubnov, 2023
POCHVA is alive! The multimedia installation, by -1 artist-in-residence Philipp Groubnov, reconstructs the Belarussian village Zhirovichi, considered by many a sacred site. POCHVA is host to billions of living organisms collected from “holy” spring water near the village. Believers share in spiritual myth and memory, or “executable rituals” that form a “collective hallucination of a promised land… somewhere in between imagination and reality.”