The Three of Us

This project grows out of a real but often overlooked facet of Soviet history: the belief that death could be conquered. After the 1917 Revolution, some Bolsheviks dreamed not only of a new society, but of a new humanity — one liberated from aging, illness, and mortality. Scientific texts speculated seriously about resurrecting the dead and engineering eternal life.

The mockumentary imagines a world in which one Soviet immortality experiment quietly succeeded. Its outcome was not a reborn Lenin, as intended, but three cloned girls, disoriented, unclaimed, and uncertain of their place in a world they were never meant to inherit.

The project draws on the biography of the artist: born in the USSR, shaped by its collapse, and repeatedly redefined through successive emigrations. Each move produced a new version of the self — split, translated, and partially erased. The three clones become both fictional characters and living metaphors for fractured identity, the afterlife of ideologies, and the instability of belonging.