Exhibition "What do you represent?" 12+ Automatic translate

From May 25 to June 24, 2021, the Russian State Library for Youth (Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya str., 4, building 1, Small Hall) is opening a group exhibition "WHAT ARE YOU PRESENTING?" The curator of the exposition, a researcher of the "sovrisk" Daniil Levites, selected the works of media artists Ilmira Bolotyan, Roman Mokrov, Danila Tkachenko and Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov and invites the public to reflect on the topic "Responsibility in art: is there a border between the artist and the viewer?"

The library for youth - a platform of various resources where systematized knowledge about life is accumulated - becomes the location of an art experiment consisting of four author’s messages, each of which allows the viewer to try on new optics and look at the world around from a different angle.

SELFIE is a video created by Ilmira Bolotyan, in which she attempts to construct a certain image for herself, having tried various “beauty rituals” recommended by professional models and occasional commentators in women’s communities. By publicly getting rid of the previous self-presentation, the artist turns the viewer into an observer of an intimate experience with a demonstration of self-rejection and vice versa - narcissism.

"ENDLESS HISTORY" - the video of Roman Mokrov, laureate of the "Innovation" prize (2011), immerses in the realities of electric trains - the main transport connecting the outskirts with the capital, the periphery with the center. Making their way past the turnstiles, bypassing the system, through a hole in the fence, people strive towards their goals. Many of them believe that there, in Moscow, their problems will finally be solved, their desires and dreams will come true.

RODINA is a memorial photo project by Danila Tkachenko, winner of the World Press Photo (2014) and European Publishers Award for Photography (2015), dedicated to the extinction of villages. In modern Russia, over the past 20 years, 76% of the population has been concentrated in large cities, and 23,000 villages have disappeared. The photographs presented for the first time in Moscow were taken on the territory of abandoned rural areas, things and buildings that are there do not function and cannot be restored.

"SLEEP IN A PIT" - video by Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, winner of the Innovation-2018 Prize, filmed in Maastricht, the Netherlands, shown on a vintage TV screen. In view of the dynamic sculptural composition of Michel Husman, showing the relationship of people to the environment. According to the concept, a girl strokes the head of a lying giraffe, the “stroking mechanism” is set in motion. But now it doesn’t work. The situation is non-standard: in an urban environment - an immobilized wild exotic animal, people do not pay attention to it.

“Striving for uniqueness, the author is looking for new forms and ways of implementing the conceptual task, manifesting his uniqueness,” explains Daniil Levites, curator of the exhibition. - The viewer often wants to deal with "understandable" art and get maximum pleasure in a short period of time. Quite understandable tension arises from such multidirectional goals. "

The curator of the exhibition project, as a medium in the artistic field, raises the topic of responsibility in the art of the artist and the viewer, and also tries to reduce the growing tension and misunderstanding on both sides.

Opening hours of the exhibition "WHAT ARE YOU PRESENTING?":
From May 25 to June 24, on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00.
Free admission. 12+