Collaboration with resale platform “THE CULTT”

installation 5,5x4 m, 2023

During the art fair Katya made an installation made of more than 35 fake bags and with only 1 real: viewers were suggested to find the original one. All of the fake bags were turned out to be fakes during the authentication process, when they were handed over for resale. People buy and support the black market in order to appear instead of be, and this trend is not decreasing.
It was about searching of your own “truth” in a big world of imposed ideas, about how to be yourself. Fun thing, that the old mini original bag had way much more inside than the most pretty fake one.
«How to find the real you? You may need to move further away to see more. Authenticate yourself among the many fakes - false ideas about yourself and other people's opinions of you.
The installation includes many fake lots and only one original one. Find it yourself, with the help of a guide, or give it up altogether?
Only you decide»