ELENA SEREBRYAKOVA AND GALINA BLEIKH | 'HAPPY NEW WORLD'

Since 2010 Elena Serebryakova and Galina Bleikh have worked collaboratively to create futuristic, digitally composed photographs and video art. Because they live in different countries, they communicate via Skype to discuss their work. ‘Our common art project is a futurological forecast that is meant to answer the question of how human consciousness will change in the near future,’ the artists have explained. The series Happy New World parodies the concept of utopia based on the idea of collective happiness, which the artists believe ‘ultimately leads to collective idiocy.’