«After Love»
Exhibition
An exhibition-as-investigation exploring the shared patterns and individual differences in experiencing heartbreak and the collapse of the romantic ideal.
The participating artists created visual works that reflect the breaking of that ideal and its re-evaluation.
Genres: performance, video art, photography, drawing, collage, zines
When Katya first met Sasha, the world paused for a second—and then resumed, changed forever.
The trees were the same, the air smelled the same, Katya was the same—but the world wasn’t. It was a world with Sasha.
Four years later, Katya suddenly saw the same world again, the one that existed before that August. She tried to sense other smells, see other walls, she touched her arms. Everything looked exactly as it did yesterday, and at the same time—like it had before that August.
It was simply a world after love.
Golosova 20, Tolyatti
An exhibition-as-investigation exploring the shared patterns and individual differences in experiencing heartbreak and the collapse of the romantic ideal.
The participating artists created visual works that reflect the breaking of that ideal and its re-evaluation.
Genres: performance, video art, photography, drawing, collage, zines
When Katya first met Sasha, the world paused for a second—and then resumed, changed forever.
The trees were the same, the air smelled the same, Katya was the same—but the world wasn’t. It was a world with Sasha.
Four years later, Katya suddenly saw the same world again, the one that existed before that August. She tried to sense other smells, see other walls, she touched her arms. Everything looked exactly as it did yesterday, and at the same time—like it had before that August.
It was simply a world after love.
The end of a romantic relationship is always the breaking of an ideal. Ultimately, this experience transcends gender, orientation, and personal preference.
Yet the ways we cope with the loss of the ideal depend on our social environments—on whether we are allowed to compare, justify, or reimagine what love should be.
How does our ideal of a partner or relationship transform after love ends? What influences that transformation, and does the ideal change at its core? Do we remain alike even when we choose different cultural identities or forms of intimacy?
And—should we even be constructing an ideal at all?
Artists:
Katya Sim / Natalia Matveeva / Irina Sevostyanova / Matvey Magdalina / WIZZARD / Nadya SALIXOL / Viktoria Kalinina / Natalia Tokareva / Nadya Min / Gala Izmailova / Darya Muranova / Polina Yerunda / Oksana Boda / Kirill Markes / Anton Weiss / Alena Budarina / Maria Kryuchkova / Dolmat / Evgenia Fomina / Anastasia Rossohina / Olesya Kapustina / Maria Yerokhina / Semyon Zhitenyov / Svyatoslava Ilyina / Konstantin Boikov / Vitaly Krivitsky / Konstantin Furasyev
Yet the ways we cope with the loss of the ideal depend on our social environments—on whether we are allowed to compare, justify, or reimagine what love should be.
How does our ideal of a partner or relationship transform after love ends? What influences that transformation, and does the ideal change at its core? Do we remain alike even when we choose different cultural identities or forms of intimacy?
And—should we even be constructing an ideal at all?
Artists:
Katya Sim / Natalia Matveeva / Irina Sevostyanova / Matvey Magdalina / WIZZARD / Nadya SALIXOL / Viktoria Kalinina / Natalia Tokareva / Nadya Min / Gala Izmailova / Darya Muranova / Polina Yerunda / Oksana Boda / Kirill Markes / Anton Weiss / Alena Budarina / Maria Kryuchkova / Dolmat / Evgenia Fomina / Anastasia Rossohina / Olesya Kapustina / Maria Yerokhina / Semyon Zhitenyov / Svyatoslava Ilyina / Konstantin Boikov / Vitaly Krivitsky / Konstantin Furasyev