RIFT

RIFT chronicles disintegration and the collapse of industrial utopia. As progress halts, society atomizes, turning social connections into voids. People are left defenseless and alone in a space that no longer belongs to them.

RIFT 2025 - 2026

 Verb: to tear, to break, to rip.

Noun: a mark of destruction; a gap formed by impact, pressure, or collapse.

Figuratively: internal discord, a disruption of integrity—in consciousness, in society, in the overall picture of the world.

 As a child, the world seemed friendly and safe. The future unfolded like a roll of wallpaper: a linear story, where each event was a logical consequence of the previous one, and life flows smoothly and fairly, and tomorrow will surely be better than today.

All the events of recent years (the pandemic, growing environmental problems, and wars)—all of this has erased this illusion. The dense fabric of reality cracked, and through the fresh cracks I saw chaos: formless phenomena that deprived me of hope for order and peace. This is a rift—a break in what I considered solid and stable. The pandemic has taught us to live in isolation, wars in constant readiness for the worst, and climate disasters in the feeling that the planet itself is rejecting us.

The civilization that humanity so carefully built has proven fragile. Instead of the promised technological paradise, where wars, disease, and toil are a thing of the past, we woke up in a confusing and dangerous labyrinth. Without guarantees, without certainty. Only anxiety and something growing on the edge of the rift: an inversion, an element that has no place in our world.

My project is about the rift within individuals and society, when the future collapses. This is an intergenerational disillusionment: children raised on stories of stability are confronted with a world where every day brings a new crack. This is the anxiety of the digital age—an endless stream of notifications, red icons, algorithms that intensify panic but provide no answers, and most importantly, no hope...

RIFT is a chronicle of disintegration, an exploration of the space where the industrial utopia has collapsed. The halt in progress has led to the atomization of society, turning social connections into voids. As a result, people are left defenseless and alone in a space that no longer belongs to them.