EXTRACTION SYSTEM

2026, single-channel video, 8 min Artist: Tanya Akhmetgalieva Sound: Victor Mazin Extraction System approaches trauma not as a singular event, but as a structural condition — a system that continues to function through constant correction and reorganisation. Movement creates an illusion of freedom and transformation, while change remains confined to surface operations. Stability becomes a form of violence: the system maintains itself by repeatedly rearranging its own instability rather than allowing a rupture to occur. Repetition replaces resolution. Anxiety is transformed into a hypnotic rhythm, while the distinction between control and collapse gradually becomes uncertain. The work reflects on collective fragility as a condition sustained through continuous adjustment — a system surviving by reorganising the conditions of its own disintegration.