The object was created with the support of the Gulf Stream Foundation, as part of the project "The Art of Being: Beyond Close".
The curator of the project is Alisa Nikolaeva.
The installation was exhibited:
1) г. Sviyazhsk (Tatarstan) . Museum-reserve "Island-town: Sviyazhsk.
2) Vladimir .State Vladimir-Suzdal Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, CC "Chambers. 2022 г.
3) Ivanovo, Burylin Museum.
4) Moscow. Temp House.
Images of "Reflections of the Slipping Time" :
A lake in relief
Frozen reflections on the water surface,
The prints on the sandy bottom, the whirlpools.
A bottomless well with its mysteries and its game of reflections,
A sandbox from childhood where you can build sandcastles.
A peeking moon with the face of a good woman.
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Contemporary art is considered to be something inaccessible, and in a museum it is not customary to touch with hands. Therefore, when working on the project, I primarily wanted to create an object about touching and involvement, to bring the viewer closer to it, to give an opportunity to interact and eventually become a co-author.
Every person has their own experience and the moments of life are imprinted in the memory through certain senses, some feel time tactilely or visually, for some memories are reflected in smells or taste sensations.
The relief is covered with a layer of paint, and in the beginning it was completely white. At the touch of the viewer to the relief, its top layer is erased, and the object changes, takes on color.
The process of the Reflection of Time on the object is demonstrated in
Thus, when interacting with the relief, the viewer becomes a co-author and the relief lives and changes within the framework of the exhibition, one can observe how the hands of visitors cross over, intertwining with each other. The relief reflects time and absorbs the viewer's impressions.
Above the object there is a mirror, in the reflection of which you can observe your hand movements, manifesting drawings.
In order to capture the process of interaction of visitors with the relief, there is a camera above it, capturing only the circle and hands of visitors, as a result, during the exhibition a video archive is created of how the object has changed to its current state, how time was reflected on the object.
exhibition photos
exhibition photos
3d Visualization of the project
3d Visualization of the project
text by the exhibition's curator, Alisa Nikolaeva:
To understand the world of another means to fully identify with it, which is illusory and utopian, because all our experiences are purely individual. We so often have a weakness for explaining the incomprehensible, the inaccessible through familiar and simple terms that we begin to ignore the individual characteristics of who or what we interact with, reduce to the simple, excluding the important.
Each of us experiences pain, fear, rage, or admiration in our own way.It becomes apparent that we cannot describe in accessible language how the other perceives the world: his sensory experience is not identical to ours, his beliefs have different grounds, his physical capabilities have their own peculiarities. What does a child who has never seen lightning, a visually impaired person, an unfortunate person who is a victim of electric shock, or a scientist-physicist experience and imagine when they hear the word "lightning"? Their understandings don't agree at all, but all their ideas about lightning do. Science is moving toward more objectivity in this matter, smoothing out the overall picture of reality.
Art moves in a slightly different direction: there are no general answers, there are different points of view, and therefore a need for dialogue. The invitation to be more attentive to the experience of the other brings us closer to the universal, but not from a position of reductionism, but through the search for new points of contact.
Each art project in the exhibition focuses the viewer's attention on a different experience of perception of reality and introduces ways to become a little closer to the world of the other. The artists' works have different bases: exclusively research projects are neighboring here with personal stories of the authors, and philosophical ideas are intertwined with everyday practices and rituals.
The new series of the project "The Art of Being" is a meeting point of different worlds in cultural, ethical and aesthetic terms. Art with its demiurgic pretensions becomes here an illustration of the world, but not a tracing of it, but an eclectic embodiment of the diversity of its constructing.Starting to talk about subjectivity today, we are talking here about openness to different modes of perception, which do not intersect or coincide, but run prohibitively close to each other.
