“Save Mode” is a series of objects: real plates with printed images, created in response to everyday situations experienced during blackouts.

The project does not focus on events as such, but on a state of suspension — moments when digital services, cloud storage, and network connections become temporarily unavailable. Under these conditions, familiar infrastructures of memory cease to function, and the act of saving can no longer be delegated to the “cloud.”

During power outages, memory becomes local and embodied. It depends once again on physical presence, manual actions, and the bodily experience of waiting. Smartphones, power banks, extension cords, or improvised light sources function not as tools of communication, but as markers of infrastructural vulnerability and temporary autonomy.

The project does not depict war directly, but engages with one of its everyday consequences: restricted access to digital infrastructures and the cloud as a universal data repository. Here, the blackout appears not only as a technical failure, but as an experience of collective memory formed under conditions of unstable infrastructure.

In this project, the plate functions as an analog carrier of collective experience. Its form becomes a field of concentration where traces of everyday survival are fixed. Cables and charging devices form a new urban ornament — a visual code familiar to anyone who has lived through blackouts, where function displaces decoration. The black background is not a neutral ground, but darkness as an environment in which technical objects temporarily replace habitual social gestures.