Magazine-VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER
BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course
2022
semester
The Avtomat Kalashnikova is a Soviet gas-operated assault rifle, it is the most common weapon all over the world.
The AK-47 became one of the means by which various occupied states regained their freedom after the colonial and imperialist period. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, AK-47s were illegally sold on the black market and in the arms trade to anyone willing to pay, such as criminal organizations, drug cartels as well as various terrorist organizations.
On the one hand, it represents freedom, social redemption, to the other it represents a death machine.
It offers an insight into the discussion on the legitimacy of violence, but above all into how the conception of an object, even a weapon of death, changes completely according to the place, historic period, culture.