The project

Lenins No-Man's Land Lives is a claim in images to try the proof of the existence of Pridnestrovia as a country and a nation. Those things that constitute a nation will become visible: national self-image through public festivals, military parades, propaganda, beauty contests, esthetics. Added with family life, idealism, pride, national segregation to the outside world and self perception. Further the visible search for identity in a young state between sovietic style past, the non-recognition by the international community and a vacuum of perspectives between western consumer society and cultural proximity towards the east. While this kind of transformation has reached most other eastern european countries in the beginning of the 90ies, Pridnestrovia is just starting now. The civil war from 1992 and the still running negotiations with Moldova, plus economical and political blockades might have had their part in this.

We think that this insecurity is a factor for difficult national identitybuilding. There is no pridnestrovian people but Russians, Ukrains and Moldovans on pridnstrovian soil. A phrase that we would coin for people from the PMR: "I am and because I am here and now I am a Pridnestrovian." A claim. Our objective is to work out these aspects with photographical research.

We claim a reality.  

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