«Pietà»

performance

Exhibitions
"What an Artist Should Speak About: Corporeality," Department of Contemporary Art, Togliatti Art Museum, Tolyatti
"Guilty!," MMOMA, Moscow
Performance screening at Solyanka Gallery, Moscow

VIDEO

pietà — (“Compassion”) — the iconography of the scene of Christ’s lamentation by the Virgin Mary.
Without claiming equality to the biblical figure, the artist explores the physical dimension of the act of compassion.
A nearly motionless figure, “mourning,” showing pity to anyone who rests their head on her lap.
Is compassion, regret, sincere strong kind feelings possible in the conditions of a public space, in an uncomfortable, awkward position?

Is it easy to decide to move from an everyday gesture of stroking a head to a sacred act in which the I is lost, and the depersonalized mother caresses the depersonalized child?

Place of Power

Place of Performance
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Exhibition
Department of Contemporary Art, Togliatti Art Museum, Tolyatti

VIDEO

At Lake Svetloyar there is a belief that if you circle it on your knees three times and make a wish, it will come true. There are many such places in Russia, but I chose a place important to me, one that fulfills my wishes as a young artist — the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
I had already circled the Garage on my knees when a security guard blocked my way and forced me to leave. By that moment, my knees were leaving bloody traces on the asphalt.

When I began walking, I was thinking only about wanting to become a brave artist. When I finished, I realized that I had not done it for the sake of making a performance, but to allow myself so much more. It was the boundary between the self concerned with the external, and the self who had skinned her knees to blood. At that moment, art as a concept had no meaning at all.

Streams of Tears

Place of Performance

Department of Contemporary Art, Togliatti Art Museum, Tolyatti

VIDEO

"To drive the tears away, take a pot, boil water, remove the lid and shake it in different directions. The drops from the lid will replace your tears."
Rituals are ancient companions of humankind: unversed in science, fearful, unable to wait calmly or to rely on faith. In the modern world, rituals and so-called magic, both white and black, remain part of many people’s lives.
“Tear Streams” is a project about the connection between the esoteric and the scientific, about what sustains us when there is nothing left to help.
ACTION:

A table and a chair. On the chair — a person, holding texts from online conversations (both sad and joyful). Above the table, a sheet of plastic film is stretched. On the table stands a boiling pot; steam gathers on the film, dripping down into the pot and onto the person, onto the sheets of text. The person reads aloud.

Little Girls Sat Quiet and Upright. The Algorithm of Silence after Ch. Bukowski

Exhibition
What an Artist Should Speak About: Silence, Department of Contemporary Art, Togliatti Art Museum, Tolyatti
In collaboration with O. Ochepovskaya, piano

“Silence is the absence of sound. What remains after music, after dance, after words — and especially after a storm. The ringing silence of a new day.”

An installation and performance based on a text by Ch. Bukowski. The text is set to music through the principle of accentuation, and similarly translated into movement.

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