Moon Escape

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Liza Zemskova

The installation-play unfolds along the viewer's path, revealing one by one the remnants and traces of events that either led to a catastrophe—or formed it. Artifacts, documents, and testimonies indirectly refer both to one another and to what is seen from a first-person perspective. They tell the story of an escape, where the main character could be a random witness—or someone who believes they missed the event entirely.

The installation objects—material storytellers—exist around a central figure: the character, whose presence remains unproven. A ghostlike entity, whose physical existence can only be inferred from residual traces of questionable documentary nature. The objects/artifacts are carriers of a subjective, emotional-intellectual surplus.

A tale of a wanderer, doomed to witness the end of the story in which he was born.
Belonging to no one and nothing, he dissolves into history, leaving behind traces soon to be washed away by the wave of time—artifacts that matter only to him, symbols readable by him alone.

A life turned into an endless escape across the wreckage of the old, ashes in hand— with the only way out: departure to the moon.