A looped, multi-screen video work and architectural installation about Ratnik’s great-grandma. Through the different elements of the project, the artist narrates absence, displaces the center-periphery of historical discourse, and trivializes politics in ways that reveal its absurdity.

The love and life story of Martyna’s Babushka is distilled into a short 16 mm film, transforming a family archive into a grand narrative that captures the bizarre forms of oppression under Soviet ideology.

The three-channel film is installed to the conditions of its surroundings, projected on the windows of a modernist landmark building and viewable both indoors and out. The building is lit chromatically in accordance with a symbolic element of the film, and the project’s text component is displayed like closed-captioned subtitles for television, narrating the activities and movements inside the building.