• Screening

KREISLAUF - PART III

Olga Chernysheva, Inconsolable: The Giver of Hope at Revolution Square (2014)

Dates

  • Tu 16.08., 10:00–18:00
  • We 17.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Th 18.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Fr 19.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Sa 20.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Su 21.08., 10:00–18:00

Language

  • English

Moscow based artist Olga Chernysheva is a careful observer who generates social, political, and critical forms of portraits of her time. Looking at the street, watching people and espacially the transformations, happenings, and events in the public sphere, she comes up with authentic forms of storytelling.

In her video work Inconsolable: The Giver of Hope at Revolution Square (2014), she zooms in on the nose holes and people's fingers that touch this bronze sculptural element with everyday noise. One might recognise the sculptures at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station of Moscow, in total 76 bronze figures depicting common people from the Soviet regime. ONe of them stands with an almost life sized dog sculpture, and for years, it has been an unspoken agreement that people stealthily caress its nose - for good luck. As an urban legend, this dog has power that transcend its bronze-ness and even its dogness.

In August and as part of Nature and State SKBB launches a new format: KREISLAUF.

The German expression KREISLAUF brings meanings of circulation, cycle, and circuit in relation to moving images and the display of them as a loop in an exhibition context. It also references nature’s cycle, the body’s and the transition of things.

As a series of weekly video programming located in Ersan Mondtag’s installation The Temple, KREISLAUF focuses a highly curated selection on geographies of transition, geo-subjective perspectives on global issues such as climate change, drought and drainage, with local references and glocal sensitivity. Within its focuses and critical lenses, KREISLAUF investigates forms and storytelling mostly through non-European, Asian Pacific and transnational connections and artistic perspectives on these geopolitical conflicts. Each week will feature a video piece, or two in conversation, unfolding questions from the exhibition.