From 11 August to 11 October, the Resilience Gallery is hosting an exhibition by the Museum of Odesa Modern Art entitled “High-Precision Love or World War III”. It features the works of artist Igor Gusev, in which the author’s visions of the terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station are completed with the vision of artificial intelligence. The exhibition also includes new drawings by Gusev from his diary “World War III”, which the author creates on the covers of old books, changing or adding details using memes.

Curator Andriy Siguntsov notes that the state of peace in the world of humans is unnatural. Instead, history shows the naturalness of war, which never ends. There are many studies of aggression, predation, genetic competition, violence, crowd behaviour, class struggle, revolution, tyranny; genocide and war crimes; military cults and weapons technologies; texts detailing the practice and theory of warfare in general and analyses of specific wars; and, finally, the terrible consequences of war. This body of knowledge, according to the curator, is the foundation of modern civilisation.

In order to get rid of psychological terror, minimise the horrors of war and prolong life, it is imperative to use this knowledge, and therefore to think and imagine. Such “surprises” as the morning of 24 February, panic and frustration in connection with Russia’s full-scale attack, are caused by the “poverty” of expectations and the “failure of imagination”, adds Siguntsov. Igor Gusev, creating visual puzzles and apocalyptic fantasies, actively uses imagination and his own methodology of “neuromodernism”. In his opinion, since reality in times of war changes almost every day, visualising this process encourages a better understanding of everything that happens to us.