Beyond Security Limits collects monuments and street scenes depicting manifestations of total control in Moscow. People in Russia are facing various restrictions and checks every day: on the underground, at the stations, at airports, in shopping malls. Allegedly, they are carried out in the interests of security, yet many security experts doubt the effectiveness of such mass measures.
Metal detectors, armed police, security checks at the entrance — all these are either symbolic gestures designed to create an illusion of security or just an excuse to subdue the free will of the society by filling city streets with men in uniform.
Sense of personal security is closely related to the idea of controllability of the outside world. One of the forces not amenable to such control is the flow, whether it be a flow of people carrying us in the public transport on the way home, a turbulent current of the Moscow River, or a flow of cars tightly stuck in Moscow traffic jams. Hostile or friendly flows carry people, albeit not necessarily bring them to where they would like to be.
In my project, I am exploring the concept of flows to show how easy it is to end up beyond security limits when being carried away by them.
