Video, 2019
“One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” is a thought experiment on the dilemmas one is constantly exposed to. How can one correctly in a political sense? How does one avoid betraying one’s ideals on various levels and in various contexts? How can one avoid betraying oneself? Through Angela Davis, her tour through the socialist countries, and Jiří Pelikán and his open letter calling for the support of political prisoners in Czechoslovakia, this video – named after a quote by Lenin – delves into our collective memory. This is represented by our 3D model of an IKEA store. As a flawless sales model, but also as a metaphor for the process of forgetting, it shows us that the dilemmas are the same and keep repeating. Only the environment changes over time, continually creating new types of traps that are all too easy to fall into.
