"About other spaces" Automatic translate

The title of the project refers to the eponymous report of the French philosopher, cultural theorist Michel Foucault, published in 1984, where he suggests using the term "heterotopy" to define different types of space. Foucault is interested in places where there is a special space within space, where reality, in its fullness and content, approaches utopia. Foucault focuses on places where atypical relations between space and time arise: hospitals and prisons (places for outcasts), museums (the gap between space and time). Markets and fairs (location with a time limit), zoos (one place that includes many), cemeteries and abandoned buildings (other space).

This exhibition sets itself the goal of expanding the definition of heterotopies, avoiding deviation meanings and artistic search for “other spaces”.

Since today space is fragmented, multiplied, changeable, mobile, a person creates many life stories in one place, which makes us think that we coexist in different worlds. The exhibition is a journey through inconspicuous urban spaces with the aim of their awareness, aestheticization and reconstruction. Inhabitants of other spaces, who previously had the status of "strangers", become visible here, and familiar places open up to the viewer in a new way.

Through the process of recognition, small plots acquire new meanings. Other spaces make a familiar city unfamiliar and vice versa.

Participants: Anna Afonina, Anastasia Korotkova, Maria Romanova, Yulia Ivashkina, Pavel Markova, Alexey Ryabov, Yuri Selivanov, Ekaterina Serikova, Ivan Simonov, Valeria Titova, Shamil Shaaev.