Red is a Color (2023)

Red is a color (2023)
Video Work (10 mins)
Shuree Sarantuya

Red is a Color is an experimental video work is shot inside a Game Engine and based on the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum’s Mongolian collection of tantric Buddhist items. There are 29 artifacts that were acquired from Mongolia in 1922 which are in the museum's archive. Inspired by the timeline of the acquisition, the video is divided into 3 parts.
- Part I: 1922 – Red is a color of Monastic Robe: The time of political and social transformation in Buddhist Mongolia - Eradicating religious and nomadic influences for atheist utopia.
- Part II: 1932 – Red is the color of Blood: Time of “Stalinist repression” and elimination of ethnic and religious organizations - Sedentarisation and urbanization.
- Part II: 1942 – Red is the color of the Capital: Time of Ulaanbaatar (translated from the Mongolian language: red hero) - Hopes of reaching the ideals of sedentary modernity.

This work is part of a group exhibition Leaky Archive / Not Allowed To Rot (08.09.23 - 08.10.23) at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany.