ZINAIDA's video work "WHITE COFFIN" was presented at the solo exhibition "4.5.0." (White Box gallery, New York, USA, 2018) — is in dialogue with and exists as a continuation of the artist's project "MUTE".
The numbers in the project's name are not arbitrary; they have an explicit philosophical meaning. "4.5.0." is a code by which Ukrainian soldiers participating in the ongoing war in Donbas (East of Ukraine) inform one another about a state of "calm" at the frontline. Emerging out of the war, the digital combination "4.5.0." quickly became a prominent colloquialism embodying a wish for peace and tranquility. This "code" is consistent with the well-known prayer abbreviation 'R.I.P.', itself coming from the 4th psalm — "Rest in peace" and "Give him eternal peace".
In the video "WHITE COFFIN", the enduring, obsessive, and ominous sound of a metal rope, which drags a coffin across a raging river, prompts the viewer to plunge into a trance — the intermediate state between dream and reality. Watching the funeral ceremony, we find ourselves in a clearly structured mythological universe where everything is in its place: life and death, material and immaterial.