In a dream, one is not personally responsible for what is happening.

In their work, Echo Undo allegorically reflects on how, in totalitarian Russia, the reality where individuals can exercise political will and take responsibility for the actions of the state and society is pushed beyond the bounds of what is permissible and acknowledged. Any display of civic consciousness and a willingness to engage in political action is met with punishment in the form of repression, torture, and death. Therefore, many people today manage to avoid thinking about the war in Ukraine or invent excuses for it.

Echo Undo employs the metaphor of a dream, representing a state where consciously manifested will is absent, leading to an uncontrollable flow of hallucinations. In modern Russia, individuals look into the mirror of reality but do not see themselves; instead, they see only the dreams imposed by propaganda or fear. The process of erasing collective memory and rewriting history, which began in the Soviet times, continues and increasingly resembles uncontrolled absurd hallucinations.

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