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The curators of the project present the exhibition as a mythical space where the incompatible is combined. Wireless internet came here, but Domostroy hasn't left yet.
The expression "Blood with milk" is applicable to a Russian (Slavic) woman. She is traditionally presented as stout, rosy, with a yoke and full buckets of oil. The fertile juice of populism, Orthodoxy and absolutism can flow only in her veins. But the minds of modern citizens can be confused by all these concepts. Or make them to be nostalgic at the best way. The government imposes irrelevant semantic universals at the same time. It is such ideals or directives: "a man should drive a nail, a woman should give birth and a tsar should be in the head’’. The main theme of the exhibition is a reflection on the interpretation of archaism and modernity in various form. And the main author’s tools are absurdity and grotesque.
The idea of the literary centricity of Russian culture takes an important place in the exhibited works. Each object select with certain quotations from Russian writers’s works over the past 50 years. The expositional consonance of visual art and literature contributes to a deeper perception of the works. They are introduced into a new semantic field. Katerina and Artyom made direct references to literary images from the works of V. Pelevin, A. Vvedensky, G. Markov, S. Dovlatov and other well-known Russian authors.
Authors mainly turn to red, white and black colours in the objects. Each of them is supported by associative markers of Russian culture. Red is blood, the color of traditional ornament, "beautiful". White is salt, purity, holiness. Black is earth, oil, sturgeon caviar. This technique allows a viewer to read the exposition at an unconscious level. It awakes the knowledge inherent in the mental level.
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