Anton Kats

The film installation by Anton Kats, which emerged from the performance After Hope, features the voice of artist and actress Susanne Sachsse and transforms the live work’s sonic, performative, and sculptural elements into a cinematic experiment about remembrance and transformation. The images and sounds tell the story of a cargo ship named Vishwa Asha (Universal Hope) built in 1974 in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, then part of the Soviet Union. Now decommissioned or lost, the former symbol of hope haunts a present marked by fascism, displacement, resistance, grief, and renewal.