"Flee No Stay"
Artist, author of the exhibition
With the support of UNHSR (The UN Refugee Agency), Publishing House "Samokat".
Cultural Center "Tverskaya 15"
A documentary exhibition about people who were forced to leave their homeland. The seven heroes tell about when and why they and their families left their home country, about the difficulties of their journey as refugees or stateless persons, about their memories of home and their present day lives today. The collected interviews are combined into a first-person narrative that accompanies the viewer through the exhibition space, where art objects are located, at first glance hidden from view. Each of the objects is dedicated to the characters and different moments in their lives.
Artist, author of the exhibition
With the support of UNHSR (The UN Refugee Agency), Publishing House "Samokat".
Cultural Center "Tverskaya 15"
A documentary exhibition about people who were forced to leave their homeland. The seven heroes tell about when and why they and their families left their home country, about the difficulties of their journey as refugees or stateless persons, about their memories of home and their present day lives today. The collected interviews are combined into a first-person narrative that accompanies the viewer through the exhibition space, where art objects are located, at first glance hidden from view. Each of the objects is dedicated to the characters and different moments in their lives.
"8 1/2 rooms"
installation "Backstage"
Ground Solyanka Gallery
The installation "Backstage" represents the space behind the scenes of the circus of the early twentieth century. It is based on the play by Leonid Andreev "He Who Gets Slapped" and documentary stories from interviews of circus performers taken in the process of working on the project.
installation "Backstage"
Ground Solyanka Gallery
The installation "Backstage" represents the space behind the scenes of the circus of the early twentieth century. It is based on the play by Leonid Andreev "He Who Gets Slapped" and documentary stories from interviews of circus performers taken in the process of working on the project.
"Theatre begins from a stick"
installation
Gogol Museum
The exhibition tells about the modern approach to the theater. The exposition consists of art objects in mixed media and includes installation, video art, sculpture and models
installation
Gogol Museum
The exhibition tells about the modern approach to the theater. The exposition consists of art objects in mixed media and includes installation, video art, sculpture and models
"With Dagestan in the Head"
Installation, video installation
Ground Peschanaya Gallery
The exhibition presents documentation of a performance created during a stay in Dagestan (North Caucasus)
The project «With Dagestan in the Head» was born as a result of staying in a kind of art residence, or rather, art immersion in the traditional, religious, patriarchal- oriented environment of the North Caucasian society, the artist's goal was to try to feel the unfamiliar culture and space, to enter into a dialogue with this space using artistic methods.
The artist made a series of two performances. The first performance consisted of walking through a market in the center of Makhachkala barefoot and blindfolded and coming into contact with the space by touch and hearing.
“While walking through the market a little girl in hijab came up to me and decided to help me, she took me by the hand and started to move my hand around the different vegetables and objects in the market and tell me what they were, this lasted about 10 minutes, after that I heard shouting and whistling around me, the police took me under the arm, I took off my blindfold and found myself in a circle of many local men, it seems the whole market closed around me demanding explanations. I explained that this was my attempt as an artist to explore a culture unfamiliar to me, that I was trying to understand their world by touch and sound. To my great surprise my explanation satisfied these people and they began to disperse, the police let me go.»
The second part of the performance called "Dissolve in Dagestan."
The artist changed into a generally accepted Muslim women's costume, came to the market in Makhachkala and sold all her things with which she came to Dagestan.
«While I was selling my own personal things - my rings, clothes, metro pass and so on, I was tracking my emotions, tracking the everyday indifference of people buying my things at the market, thereby gradually losing everything material that defines me in this space.»
Installation, video installation
Ground Peschanaya Gallery
The exhibition presents documentation of a performance created during a stay in Dagestan (North Caucasus)
The project «With Dagestan in the Head» was born as a result of staying in a kind of art residence, or rather, art immersion in the traditional, religious, patriarchal- oriented environment of the North Caucasian society, the artist's goal was to try to feel the unfamiliar culture and space, to enter into a dialogue with this space using artistic methods.
The artist made a series of two performances. The first performance consisted of walking through a market in the center of Makhachkala barefoot and blindfolded and coming into contact with the space by touch and hearing.
“While walking through the market a little girl in hijab came up to me and decided to help me, she took me by the hand and started to move my hand around the different vegetables and objects in the market and tell me what they were, this lasted about 10 minutes, after that I heard shouting and whistling around me, the police took me under the arm, I took off my blindfold and found myself in a circle of many local men, it seems the whole market closed around me demanding explanations. I explained that this was my attempt as an artist to explore a culture unfamiliar to me, that I was trying to understand their world by touch and sound. To my great surprise my explanation satisfied these people and they began to disperse, the police let me go.»
The second part of the performance called "Dissolve in Dagestan."
The artist changed into a generally accepted Muslim women's costume, came to the market in Makhachkala and sold all her things with which she came to Dagestan.
«While I was selling my own personal things - my rings, clothes, metro pass and so on, I was tracking my emotions, tracking the everyday indifference of people buying my things at the market, thereby gradually losing everything material that defines me in this space.»
