Exhibition, 2020 The title of the exhibit refers to a fragment from Guy Debor’s text «The Society of the Play», where he speaks of subjecting the viewer’s view to the objects being seen, and thus gives context to the power and influence of the images. The artist, in addition to another French philosopher, Jacques Ransier, invites the viewer to feel «emancipated,» to shift the line between the one who acts and the one who watches. The exhibition was conceived as a community of conscious presence, as an ironic set of exercises that helped, if not erase, to make a visible distance between the viewer and the object, between the viewer and the spectator, which is posed by the endless presentation of images. And while the images continue their dance (there’s nothing to do), I wanted them to point to their effects this time — the creation of distance and division — and thus help expose and partially overcome them. This project offers a set of exercises and tools, more specifically exercisers, that will allow us to exercise a little bit of our ability to get away from the power of images, addiction to their consumption (hello, artists), playing with them and with them.
Viewers The main element of the exhibition space was a series of interactive objects with instructions.
«The more he sees, the less he lives; the more he becomes more willing to learn his own needs for the images that the dominant system offers him, the less he realizes his own existence and his own desires» Gee Debor, «The Society of Play».
The object «Namely descending and climbing» The object consists of two mirrors and a staircase between them. On the steps, the images are nude. If you look on one side, you come down, you go up on the other.
Another element of the exhibit, Sad of points , was the set of interactive «Sad of Points» objects located in a wide variety of parts of the space. These sites consisted of reconfigured chairs that contained inscriptions related to well-established expressions of human opinion.
Hypergraphics Hypergraphics on the floor of the exhibition hall is part of a project that can be seen completely and unmarked from just one point on the balcony. For most viewers, however, this part of the exhibition, referring to momento mori and the name of the exhibition and indicating the time taken away during the gazing process, remained invisible.
The exhibition «The more we look at, the less we live» was held from 31 January to 23 February 2020 in Olivier space at the CTI Fabrica. The project was implemented within the framework of the «Fabric Workshops» programme photos Mitya LALLIN, Tanya SUCHENOVA montage Vladimir KUZNEZOV, Sergei TRUSTENKOL>20
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