“You can't wrap fire in paper”

This installation reveals the meaning of the wisdom “You can't wrap fire in paper” through a physical process that is displayed on video or shown live. Ancient Eastern sayings are always striking in their combination of extreme laconism. This can be understood in different ways. The fragility of relations, the inability to achieve an adequate parity solution to complex issues, someone interprets it as that “you can't hide anything secret” is an analogue of our bag awl. Paper that fire eats up giblets, turning it into dust or ash, sweeping the remnants by the wind on all four sides, hiding traces of past existence.

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