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Featuring specially commissioned artworks, a podcast series, and a selection of timely essays, Sreda online magazine offers a nuanced view on culture and contemporaneity. Content is available for a limited period of time and updated every other Wednesday. The Russian word ‘sreda’ means both Wednesday and the natural, geographical, and social environment.

BLUESOUP
Untitled, 2009

Video, computer graphics, 10 min.

V–A–C Sreda online magazine concludes its final three-month programme on significant cultural phenomena of the past that are now almost forgotten or considered extinct, but nevertheless continue to exist.

In this issue, we present a video work by the artist collective BlueSoup, known for its practice in video art and computer animation.

In the artists’ own words, Untitled (Sea) is a universal metaphor for the structure of both the human condition and the world. A straight line cuts across the surface of the water, transforming a seascape into a meditation on boundaries—visible and invisible, permeable and insurmountable. The central motif of encounter and passage (or their impossibility) acquires an additional dimension within the unreal space of computer-generated imagery. The digital image itself becomes a barrier between the viewer and the work.

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