Physical exhibition :
17 - 29 November 2020 - 22 rue du Cloitre Saint-Merri, 75004 Paris
POSTPONED due to the lockdown
17 - 29 November 2020 - 22 rue du Cloitre Saint-Merri, 75004 Paris
POSTPONED due to the lockdown
Online exhibition featuring six international artists who created their works during the lockdown
Marina Chernikova, locked in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Olga Kisseleva, locked in Paris, France
Vladyslav Krasonshchok, locked in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Gosha Ostretsov, locked near Moscow, Russia
Olga & Oleg Tatarintsev, locked in Moscow, Russia
Curated by Alexandra de Viveiros locked near Paris, France
Text: Alisa Lozhkina, locked in San Francisco, USA
In the times of global uncertainty, the brightest minds keep looking for ways to overcome the threat of the disease. The humankind’s universal dream right now is very simple and at the same time almost unreachable – “to get back to normal”. However almost everyone already understands, that there is no way back to a status quo. Society will inevitably have to develop rules of the new normal - sets of habits and standards which will let people overcome the fear of getting closer to each other in the situation when physical distancing has become the most important and at the same time a deeply disturbing factor of our life. Among many new words that have recently entered our vocabulary there is another important term - collective (or herd) immunity. The victory over a disease comes only when a large percentage of population becomes immune to the infection. It seems that the human race today needs the collective immunity not only against a particular type of deadly virus but also to many other things that are destroying it from within: right-wing populism, hatred, wars, media manipulations, loneliness and a deep crisis of values.
Each of the participants of the exhibition has her individual recipe of coping with the challenges of contemporary situation. Together they create a powerful statement about the importance of solitude, contemplation and creativity and emphasize the inner power and regenerative potential of a crisis.
Alisa Lozhkina
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Alisa Lozhkina is an independent Ukrainian curator and art critic. She is the author of a book about the development of contemporary art in Ukraine “Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art in the 20th - Early 21st Century” published in Ukraine and in France. The exhibition in Ludwig Museum “Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Now”, which she curated in 2018, was nominated for Global Fine Art Awards.
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Olga & Oleg Tatarintsev
In Moscow a couple of artists, Olga and Oleg Tatarintsev, are preparing to their big solo show scheduled for this autumn. They are following the news, reading “The Plague” by Albert Camus and making new artworks. They work in their usual manner, creating paintings filled with texts, which this time are mixed with statistical data about the current pandemic. “Nothing really changed in our lives” – the artists confess. “But it seems that the world is drowning in Franz Kafka’s dystopian novel where the protagonist wakes up one day to discover that he turned into a gigantic insect. He hears and understands everything but cannot do anything about this situation.” |
Olga Tatarintsev, "Fragile Basement", 2020, ink on paper, 29,5x21 cm. INQUIRE
For both images: Ogla Tatarintsev, Untitled from "Nests of Memory" series, 2020, gel pen on paper, 21x29,5 cm. INQUIRE
Olga Tatarintsev, "Art to Be Alone", 2020, ink on paper, 21x29,5 cm. INQUIRE
Olga Tatarintsev, "Place where there is no Darkness", 2020, ink on paper, 21x29,5 cm. INQUIRE
Olga Tatarintsev, Untitled from "Nests of Memory" serie, 2020, ink on paper, 21x29,5 cm. INQUIRE
Olga Kisseleva
photo Lilia Chak
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Olga Kisseleva is isolated in Paris where she teaches art and science at the University of Sorbonne. The classes go online, but for Olga it is a very familiar and comfortable mode of being. Olga Kisseleva’s projects are usually based on deep research and require serious preparation. This quarantine is a challenge for her, but she decides to be more flexible and adapts all her ongoing projects to the current situation. As a result, a new edition of her Power Struggle project appears. The work in progress was launched in 2011 as a commission by Tate Modern. The artist studies the similarities between the behavior of viruses and human behavior in situations of conflict, or difficulty, described in particular by Game Theory. |
POWER STRUGGLE DC *, April–May 2020
In full swing of the pandemic, while the world's attention is focused on the virus and its behaviors, the artist initiates a new series of performances, where she invites high-level specialists in the fields affected by the crisis: medicine, virology, biology, but also finance, politics or culture, to comment on virus confrontations as if they were divergences applied to their own field.
* BC era = before COVID19, DC = during pandemic COVID19, AC = after COVID19. Source: LEONARDO provocation initiated in April 2020 by curators Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy and Joel Slayton.
* BC era = before COVID19, DC = during pandemic COVID19, AC = after COVID19. Source: LEONARDO provocation initiated in April 2020 by curators Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy and Joel Slayton.
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Claire Nettleton is the Academic Curator for the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in California, USA, author of The Artist as Animal in 19th Century French Literature and organizer of Viral Culture: Bioart, COVID-19 and Society weekly webcast meetings with the art-science community and co-editor of a corresponding edited volume.
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POWER STRUGGLE DC with Claire Nettleton, video HD with sound 6:08. INQUIRE
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Dominique Moulon is an independent curator, art critic and professor. Holder of a PhD in Arts and Sciences of the Art, he is a member of the Observatory of Digital Worlds in Humanities (OMNSH) and the Observatory of Digital Worlds in Humanities (OMNSH). He teaches at EPSAA (Advanced Professional Graphic Design School), ECV (School of Visual Arts), Parsons School for Design, SAIC (School of the Art Institute) of Chicago, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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Dr Roman Hossein Khonsari is surgeon at the Necker Children Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Paris. Specialist of maxillofacial surgery, he leads the laboratory “Development and growth of the skull” that studies pattern formation during cranio-facial development.
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Fabrizio Donini Ferretti has twenty years of experience in financing the energy sector, with a focus on clean energies, environment, and climate change mitigation. His is an investment banker and financial advisor in the fields of energy and infrastructure, with private banks, multilateral institutions and private equity.
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Natalia Buryka is a public historian, essayist, specialist in modern political systems and cultural and educational projects in the field of human sciences. She is an organizer of the historical festival Secousse in Paris. In past, she is the editor of the French and Russian sections of the International Fédération for Public History
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Marina Chernikova
In Amsterdam, Marina Chernikova currently missing out on planned travels, relives her memories of past voyages. Through computer manipulation she unites previous video records of her rambles through the streets of Moscow, Paris and Amsterdam. In this process recognizable and logical images of cities are mixed, multi-layered and reconstructed. Eventually they are transformed into new glitch-like urban landscapes. These become sources of new snapshots and videos and form a new series “Archives of Rambles / 2020”. The artist shows the altered perception of the urban environment by a person immersed in the digital universe. |
For 3 images: Marina Chernikova, "Untitled", digital print on paper 80х4 cm, edition of 8 +2 a.p. INQUIRE
Marina Chernikova, “Archives of Rambles 20 M/P”, 2020, vidéo, 1min 40sec, HD, stereo, edition of 8 + 2a.p. INQUIRE
For 2 images: Marina Chernikova, "Paris Night ”, 2020, digital print on paper, 40x70 cm, edition of 8 + 2 a.p. INQUIRE
For both images: Marina Chernikova, "Yellow Facade" / "Blue Facade", 2020, acrylic and water-color on paper, 37x26 cm. INQUIRE
Marina Chernikova, "Ruins", 2020, acrylic and water-color on paper, 36x48 cm. INQUIRE
Marina Chernikova, "Bridge", 2020, acrylic and water color on paper, 30x40 cm. INQUIRE
Gosha Ostretsov
photo Mikhail Stenin
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“An artist is always in isolation” – says Gosha Ostretsov, a Russian artist who is self-isolating with his family in his house surrounded by woods near Moscow. During this quarantine Ostretsov starts a new project - “The Forest Dwellers”. The artist focuses on establishing a very intimate connection with nature. He listens to medieval music and walks in the woods which have become his own private temple. From there he brings home weird dry tree branches, draws their portraits, turns them into sculptures and talks to them as if they were actual human beings. The return to the pagan world of primordial unity of humans and trees is helping the artist to cope with stress and uncertainty. |
Gosha Ostretsov, "Forest Inhabitant", 2020, pencil on paper, 30x40 cm
Gosha Ostretsov, "Mask", 2020, pencil on paper, 40x30 cm
Vladyslav Krasonshchok
Kharkiv, an industrial city in Eastern Ukraine is the home of Vladyslav Krasnoshchok. He is one of the most important representatives of the younger wave of the famous Kharkiv School of Photography. Unlike all other participants of the exhibition he has an additional dimension of his career. Vladyslav Krasnoshchok is a surgeon who has been operating throughout this lock-down in two major hospitals in the city. In parallel he is creating numerous new art pieces – engravings on masks and old newspapers, photos and installations. The artist uses Petri dishes (common cell-growing tools that can be found at any medical laboratory) to create collages filled with nostalgic memories and artifacts from the Soviet past. In his practice Krasnoshchok is focused on the topic of cultural memory and remembering which is especially relevant in contemporary Ukraine which in 2014-2019 went through a painful and ambiguous wave of decommunization and is currently looking for ways to overcome all “forms of forgetting ” of its cultural and political past. |
Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Untitled, 2020, anonymous photo colored manually, 29x35 cm. INQUIRE
For two images: Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Untitled, March 2020, manual linocut on surgical mask, 10x17 cm, edition of 60 each. INQUIRE
For three images: Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, "Petri Dish", 2015, Petri dish, mixed media, 12x12x2,5 cm. INQUIRE
For three images: Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, "Petri Dish", 2015, Petri dish, mixed media, 12x12x2,5 cm. INQUIRE
Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Untitled, 2020, manual linocut on Pravda of the 10th of March 1953 (with the first announsment of the Stalin's death), 60x40cm. INQUIRE