After February 24, 2024, reports appeared on social networks that on that day a performance was held in the United States, within the framework of which Ukrainian soldiers were depicted in the image of feces with human limbs. We checked whether such an event took place.
Reportedthat on the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in the gallery of the New York Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMA), the exhibition dedicated to the Heroes of Glory was held (in social networks it is sometimes called "Heromes Glory"). At the same time, the publications bring the poster of the alleged event and a video supposedly shot in one of the halls. “Thematic performance in New York. APU militants were presented in the form of a heap of shit with their hands, ”commented on the video in the Telegram channel“Troika"(437,000 views at the time of writing this analysis").
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The viral 14-second video is not an independent video, but a recording of the smartphone screen on which Instagram storis is shown in the MOMA profile. In the second second, an inscription appears with the date of February 24, 2024. It is indicated that Storiz was published 10 hours ago.
The image with the announcement of the exhibition is also a screenshot Storiz on Instagram, which does not show the name of the account. Instead, the cover of the album Storiz Thus Week (“This week”) is demonstrated. According to the announcement, allegedly published six days before the creation of the screenshot, the Heroiam Slava exposition with the following description was planned in the Moma PS1 gallery: “Exhibition-password in memory of Ukraine’s heroes who bravely fought for freedom.” Also in Storiz supposedly stood a link for buying tickets for an event.
The earliest posts with viral photos and videos “Checked” found at once in two Telegram channels: ““Tasking News"(22,000 views) and"Shkvarka 2.0"(11,000). There publications appeared on February 27 at 16:26 Moscow time, while the files, judging by the metadata, are uploaded to the platform a couple of hours earlier - at 13:57. In the posts of both channels, it was clarified that the news was sent by an anonymous subscriber and that in fact at the exhibition of the feces were not shown: “Within the framework of the performance, the Heroye’s hands swarmed in a pile of land (very similar to shit). They are artists, they see that. ” Previously, channels "Drinking News" and "Shkvarka 2.0" repeatedly They became The sources of the spread of fabricated photos and videos, also allegedly sent by anonymous readers.
"Checked" studied sites Museum of Modern Art in New York and its exhibition space Moma PS1but there was no references to the event called Heroiam Slava there. It is absent in calendar Exhibitions for February 24, 2024. As for Instagram Moma, it is no longer possible to check the presence of storiz there, since more than 24 hours have passed (in the album This Week Old publications are also deleted). In addition, about performance They did not write No American media.
Facts from the Georgian project "Detector of myths" Contacted With the Museum of Modern Art, and in its press service they deny that the Heroiam Slava exhibition was held in MOMA PS1. On February 24, 2024, several events were organized in this art space, but not one of them was dedicated to the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
As for the exhibit, which was used in viral storiz, it has nothing to do with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. With the help of a reverse search for the image “verified” it found that this performance called "New Flesh", and its author is the artist William Cobbing. Back in September 2023, he Share Sanding photos from filming and He wrotethat the video is demonstrated in the British Airspace Gallery as part of the modern ceramic festival in Stoke. Full minute video author Published In their social networks in early October last year.
The Cobbing exhibition was called Social Substance ("Social substance") and passed In the fall of 2023. According to the description of the exposition, the artist “presented a series of videos, sculptures and performances exploring the playful and ambiguous interaction between people immersed in the embankment of shapeless clay”. On the YouTube channel of the Airspace Gallery published A small tour of the exhibition.
Thus, on February 24, 2024, the New York Museum of Contemporary Art did not hold an event at which Ukrainian soldiers were presented in the form of a heap of Feckali. Attackers forged publications on behalf of MOMA, using personnel from last year's exhibition, which was held in the UK as part of the ceramic festival. She also had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
Photo on the cover: screenshot video @Williamcobbing (X)
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