Is a live performance with video projection that explores memory, inherited trauma, and the fragile border between personal and collective history. The work begins with the artist seated on a chair, singing the old Russian folk song "Ryabina." The melody, traditionally associated with longing and resilience, becomes a quiet anchor amid the unfolding visual narrative.

The Past Life invites the viewer to question how much of our emotional landscape is shaped by stories we have not lived, and how the body becomes a site where private vulnerability intersects with collective trauma.

The projected text recounts a dream in which the artist appears as a soldier executed in a past life. As this confession hovers on the screen, archival photographs of war crimes slowly emerge. The images do not illustrate the dream directly; instead, they function as an uneasy echo — a reminder of the countless unnamed stories that haunt the collective subconscious.

The projection falls onto the artist’s white dress and the equally white background, dissolving the boundaries between body and image. The performer becomes both witness and surface, absorbing the violence of history and allowing it to imprint itself onto her presence. This merging suggests a state in which personal identity is permeated by historical memory, as if past lives, real or imagined, can inhabit the body in the present.