Tens of thousands of festival fans from around the world watched the Ukrainian Phoenix in the form of a trident rise from the ashes.
At the Burning Man festival, which takes place in the Black Rock Desert in the USA in 2023, two installations from Ukraine were presented – hedgehog temple And Ukrainian Phoenix. On August 31, an eight-meter sculpture of a phoenix, which resembles a trident, was presented at the event. Subsequently, it was burned, the video appeared on the network.
Tens of thousands of festival fans from around the world watched the Ukrainian Phoenix in the form of a trident rise from the ashes. The installation was created by Ukrainian artists: artist Oleksiy Sai and architect and artist Dana Kosmina.
At first, they hid it behind the boards that were burned. The installation symbolizes the unity and resilience of the Ukrainian spirit, while the box-burning performance symbolizes what happened to Ukraine and Ukrainians.
“This is a Ukrainian phoenix that passed through the fire and rose from the ashes. Visually, the milestone looks like a trident. But it is a bird. The allegory of this work is very simple. They want to destroy us as a nation. But the fire has warmed us. We came out of the fire, and he only made our skin rougher, and we were stronger, we were reborn through the fire, and though we did not choose it for ourselves, but our managed and continued each day … It seems to me that we, as a nation, are at a place at this point. The fire is still burning and trying to destroy us. We are hurting. We are burning in the flames of war and death . But we are becoming stronger than before,” the founder of the foundation explained the idea come back aliveDeputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Vitaliy Deinega.
Recall that a five-meter coat of arms of Ukraine was placed in celebration of Burning Man 2022.
Source: korrespondent
