Exhibition "Everyday magic or under a microscope of sight" Automatic translate

On February 5, the Nagornaya gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls exhibition opens an exhibition of the Okoyem art and craft workshop with the support of the Equal Opportunities public organization, which includes the total installation of Sand and the work of artist Elena Drozdova.

A new project of participants in art and craft workshops, people with special needs in mental development and psychophysical disabilities, was born from a photograph of sand under a microscope, when suddenly an inspiration came from unexpected beauty.

The invisible world of everyday magic cannot be seen without special equipment. But the artists, together with the master, imagined what grains of sand can be, and offer to find inside themselves a personal, unique grain of sand, a tiny piece of glass. The result of this was the installation of "Sand".

The exhibition will also feature original paintings from various materials by Elena Drozdova and the installation "Eternity in the pocket of a coat. Audience - children from 8 years old and adults." This is a series of 7 objects arranged in a circle and similar graphic works accompanied by audio materials. On the floor, in the center of the circle, a dot is drawn, symbolizing eternity. Becoming on it, the viewer, as it were, becomes an eternity or, like the author, can find it in the pocket of his coat.

“We, like mollusks, can grow pearls within ourselves. From such personal grains of sand, corals, pearls, the visible world appeared - the space of sand, the installation. ”

“The project“ Eternity in the coat pocket ”was born a year ago. On the way home, I found eternity in the pocket of my old summer coat. I often thought about an accidental find. I thought about what would happen to eternity if it were me. I thought of her as a girl who is in love, sick, watches a movie, writes a letter, but eternity knows that she is eternity, that she is forever alone, that she is a point without a bottom in the pocket of my old summer coat… ”)Elena Drozdova).

The curator of the project is Anastasia Polumordvinova.

About the project participants:

The public organization “Equal Opportunities” is an interregional public organization in support of people with mental disabilities and psychophysical disorders. It was founded in 2014 and grew out of the "Association for the Support of Children and Adults with Disabilities and Disabilities in Mental and Physical Development", which was founded in 2006 in Pskov. Their integrated theater “Circle II” is the only professional “special theater” in Russia, winner of the Golden Mask national theater award.

Art workshops “Eye” - an organization where people with special needs in mental development and psychophysical disorders do unusual creative things. Their work and employment in the organization is a way of realization in society, creating a product that carries its aesthetic views, and at the same time valuable to culture and society.

Elena Drozdova was born and lives in Moscow, in 2016 she graduated from the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in 2005 - from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Linguistics with a degree in Psychology, in 2001 - from the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, specializing in robots and robotic systems.

Currently, she is engaged in individual creativity and works as a teacher-artist in the art workshop “Eye”.

Exhibition “Everyday Magic or Under the Microscope of Sight” 0 +
Opening date: February 05 at 19:00 - admission is free.
Date: February 05-12, 2020.
Opening hours: Tue - Sun 11: 00–20: 00
Cost: 100 r. (50 p. - preferential ticket)