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Dmitry Vegelin Emptiness for the Future Emptiness for the Future is a video motivated by my personal ideas of what history from World War II to the present has left us with: emptiness. On the one hand, I mean that the targeted destruction of cultures carried out or influenced by the Nazi ideology led to the permanent loss of countless works of art, literature, music and architecture, and millions of people. That is why I feel as if we are permanently surrounded by emptiness, e.g. evoked by the memory of the lives that couldn’t be lived to the fullest. On the other hand, the project Butterflies Don’t Live in the Ghetto and the artwork that I have created in that context, remind me clearly of my family’s history. As Volga Germans, my great-grandparents and their children, my grandparents, were in October 1941 among half a million forced deportees to Siberia, one of Stalin’s so-called “human dumping grounds”. That is why I was born deep inside Russia, almost in the middle of nowhere, in a small town near Krasn
