Hundred seconds to midnight (2020) Schilderij door Tatiana Popova

The work is on display at the Tushino Museum and Exhibition Center until April 25.

The doomsday clock is a project of the University of Chicago magazine "Bulletin of atomic scientists", started in 1947 by the creators of the first American atomic bomb. Periodically, the cover of the magazine publishes an image of the clock, with the hour and minute hands, showing a few minutes to midnight. The time remaining until midnight symbolizes the tense international situation and progress in the development of nuclear weapons. Midnight itself symbolizes the moment of nuclear cataclysm.
The decision to transfer the arrows is made by the Board of Directors of the magazine with the help of invited experts, including 18 Nobel prize winners.
In 2018, the hands of the clock showed 2 minutes to midnight. In 2020, there are 100 seconds left until midnight. Humanity has never been so close to the Apocalypse.

A worker with a pickaxe ... clock... conditional and not realistic time on the clock. You can't tell if it's day or night. What's clear is that there are only two minutes left. It is like a doomsday clock that counts down the time remaining until midnight, symbolizing the moment of nuclear cataclysm. But, as it turned out, our fragile world can be destroyed not only by nuclear war. New diseases that have no cure, political and economic problems that have
no visible solution-bring us to the finish line, beyond which comes the end of the present world, when humanity will have to answer for everything that was done to it. For many, it is unexpected and unclear how we came to this line-by ourselves or by someone else's will…
The person looks at the clock, the hands of which complete the history of the world. He was tired, worked hard, and used to this life. And now he was facing new challenges that were destroying everything he had lived for. The fragility of being against the background of apparent strength.
And it is not clear what this person will do, what decision he will make. Will he rely only on a higher power? Will he try to stop the hands of the clock or turn them back? Or does he use a pickaxe to destroy the timer, stop the force counting down the last seconds of the world?

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