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The title refers to the story of six teenagers stranded on a deserted island in 1966. Contrary to the well-known culture stories about social deviations, aggression and degradation that appear in any community as condemned, but strengthening the social order of phenomena, teenagers on the island of Ata are building a commune, establishing equal work and supposedly giving hope that man is not a wolf to man.
Antonina Fatkhullina creates a series of sculptures in her characteristic style: she “draws” graphic wire figures of children with an iron line. They leave drawings of animals, tanks, adults on the walls; rehearse strength in a fight or a toy weapon, but so far remain in a state of childish equality. The artist creates a space of tension and expectation, reflecting on the cyclical nature of history and social laws, embodying the fatalistic expectation of the beginning of a historical pattern, inciting modern catastrophic imagination, but also bright hope. After all, life on the island of Ata is a non-fictional story, unlike Lord of the Flies.
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