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Department of Film and Media Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin and the North Caucasian branch of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin presents the exhibition "Experiences of Dialogue", which will show works from the collection of new media art of the Pushkin Museum and works by authors from North Ossetia and Dagestan.

The project is based on the idea of ​​changing the communication capabilities of a person in the modern world: in conditions of information overload, the potential of dialogue is reduced, a person loses the ability to recognize the variety of shades in the gestures, words and views of the interlocutor. The exhibition invites you to take a journey through the signs and meanings that make up human communication. The works presented in the exposition give the viewer the opportunity to make a kind of reboot of their communication skills and build a new sign system.

The first work that meets the viewer in the exhibition is the object of Timur Musaev-Kagan in the form of a luminous letter of the Ossetian alphabet "Ӕ". On the one hand, it becomes a beacon that marks the entrance and exit from the exhibition space and sets the coordinate system, on the other hand, it becomes the key to understanding other works: everything begins with a sign and ends with it. The video installation by Zaira Magomedova is dedicated to Raisat, a resident of Dagestan, and her collection of scarves as non-verbal memory.

A scarf is both a symbol and a separate message about a significant event in private life. Laure Prouvost proposes to look at familiar words as parts of an unknown language and observe how they lose their meaning from repeated repetition. Gary Hill decomposes the sign system into its primary elements, reducing it to simple visual forms, from which he reassembles the communication puzzle.

Continuing the play of the visual, verbal and semantic, the graphic sheets of the sound poets give new expressions to the usual meanings, expose the visual structure of the language and urge the viewer to give it a new sound. The installations of Mariateresa Sartori and Anna Kabisova and Yevgeny Ivanov, in turn, simulate situations of communication in which the characters are trying to find mutual understanding with others, and the “Self-Portrait” by the Ossetian sculptor Soslanbek Edziev, provided by the Maharbek Tuganov Art Museum, on the contrary, turns the viewer to an internal dialogue.

The exhibition will include a public program that will introduce viewers to the history of video art, as well as consider it through the prism of the exhibition and place it in the context of art history. Culturologist Valery Tsagaraev will present his experiences of interpreting communicative events in works of art from the Middle Ages to the present, and Maria Kuzmina, one of the curators of the exhibition, will talk about the interaction of social artistic practices and the media. The public program will end with a workshop aimed at a youth audience, which will be held by Marta Yaralova, curator of the Pushkin.Yu direction.

The "Experiences of Dialogue" project is the first exhibition within the "Media Windows" program, created by the Department of Film and Media Art together with the teams of the Centers for Contemporary Art of the Pushkin Museum. "Media windows" are designed to introduce both the key works of the classics of media art, and the works of contemporary artists who form the landscape of media art today.

Many of the collection’s works will be shown to a wide audience for the first time. One of the goals of the program is to make the collection of new media art of the Pushkin Museum available to viewers across the country. The project will present not only works from the collection of the Pushkin Museum, but also works by local artists whose practices are consistent with the principles of forming the collection of the Pushkin Museum.