Hiiumaa Island, Estonia. About 455 million years ago, a meteorite fell here, forming a crater 4 kilometers in diameter. This event is now represented by a landmark, a 1:100 scale model field of the Kärdla meteorite crater. In the middle of the field, there is a rock — or perhaps two rocks? One is an object of the speechless wilderness: a rock is a rock is a rock. The other is a signifier, an agent of the symbolic domain that participates in language and claims to be a meteorite. Playing with Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images” and a song by Simon & Garfunkel, the work delves into the paradoxical relationship between nature, language, and representation.
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Director: Teta Tsybulnyk
Production
ruїns collective
Director
Teta Tsybulnyk
Teta Tsybulnyk is a psychoanalyst and artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, social anthropology at the Central European University, and clinical psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2017, she co-founded ruїns collective, an art group currently consisting of herself and Elias Parvulesco. They have collaborated on a series of video works, such as dendro dreams (2018), zong (2019), K-object from LL-group (2019), Salty Oscillations (2021), and Endless Sea of Sand (2023). Her research ranges from a more-than-human gaze on landscape to dreamwork and (im)possibilities of language.Selected Filmography
I Am a Rock (2024) 
