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RUS/ ENG

INSTALLATION

Tumbleweed

Linen, hemp, jute, metal. Tapestry,
autor’s technique
16 objects d-50cm, w- 20cm

The objects are made of rough materials, not perfected to the ideal, flawless state - flax, hemp, rusty wire. They contain a reference to the images of my childhood in the Kuban and to the irretrievably disappearing peasant labor, which has lost its deep connection with the land and has been transformed into a mechanised appendage of industry. Industrial technology is viewed as extracting outward what is hidden in nature and man, as a disfiguring dissection of their inner secrets, transformation into a tool, into a method of generating energy or making profit.

 

The problems of technogenic impact on the environment are intertwined with the internal human ecology.”

 

PATH OF HEROES

Gypsum. Installation includes
2 spheres d=150cm, 5 spheres d=170cm

After many years of waiting we are just like recently hatched younglings. We happily, thus scarily, encounter each other, smiling incredulously, examine one another by touch. Our steps are careful, the sun blinds us, we are yet to find out what expects us in this world full of mysteries.

 

Long ago an American architect and visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote: “And so as the chick pecks at the shell seeking more nutriment it inadvertently breaks open the shell. Stepping forth from its initial sanctuary, the young bird must now forage on its own legs and wings to discover the next phase of its regenerative sustenance. My own picture of humanity today finds us just about to step out from amongst the pieces of our just one-second-ago broken eggshell. Our innocent, trial-and-error-sustaining nutriment is exhausted. We are faced with an entirely new relationship to the universe. We are going to have to spread our wings of intellect and fly or perish; that is, we must dare immediately to fly by the generalised principles governing universe and not by the ground rules of yesterday's superstitious and erroneously conditioned reflexes. And as we attempt competent thinking we immediately begin to reemploy our innate drive for comprehensive understanding.”

 

So we don’t know anything about the ones hatched just recently. We are not aware of whether they are kind or cruel, beautiful or frightful and what they are to become..

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