At the edge of geography, the familiar ends. For some, the familiar is the urban environment; for others, the natural world. In the space of an abandoned building on the border between city and forest, the project participants reassess their position relative to once-familiar coordinates. Here, new relationships are being forged with a world no longer measured by distances, but transformed into a topological space where everything is adjacent to everything else. And this has made it even more vulnerable.
What is happening in this border, almost «twilight,» zone? What forces is this concrete cube a meeting point for? An outpost for whose side? Does it serve as a space for the interpenetration of the human and the non-human, a place for the search for new forms of coexistence, or, conversely, is it the epicenter of confrontation? This space is a search for an answer: can we allow nature to be neither a resource nor a decoration, but rather to be heard as an equal subject, possessing human rights, including the right to vote.
We find ourselves on the edge of the relationship between the man-made and the natural, in an illusory yet very concrete space. What does it mean for us to be «here»?
(PollyT)
Artists:Galolbo, Danil Danot, PollyT, Elizaveta Alekseeva, Olga Bozhko, Oksana Vinogradova, R&wFlowers, Dmitry Gutov, Vera Ershova, Pavel Zudanov, Elena Izvolskaya, Svetlana Kalashnikova, Polina Krutova, Denis and Natalia Lotarev, Natalia Mezheritskaya, Svetlana Metso, Anastasia Myachina, Sasha Nesterkina, Yulia Parfenova, Lyubov Remizova, Anna Salimzyanova, Sasha Sorokina, Natalia Struchkova, Alena Troitskaya, Angelina Ushko, Dmitry Chuyko, Katya Goryacheva, Sasha Krivoshapkin, Grisha Joy, Yulia Baranyuk, Anna Nechaeva, Maria Bast, Masha Vse-taki, Nastya Kedrovskaya
Photo:Alexandra Ptitsa
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