FEBRUARY 2025
DISSONANTIA
artists: Alexandra Korolyova, Andrey Strizhkov
("Dissonance", "discord", "lack of harmony") — a state of psychological discomfort or stress that arises when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors, as well as values or ideas. (source: the internet)
The main goal of creating the works and the exhibition: To create dissonance. To combine the elitism of art with "trash", the "disposable" and the "eternal", to make visible what we push out of our field of view in pursuit of "beauty".
Using technologies similar to the processes of mineral and rock formation in the Earth's crust (heat and pressure), we create "unmade" works, excluding artistic vision. The material becomes a work of art without the artist's intervention in its visual form.
The result is a work generated/compiled from both material and immaterial products of society's activity.
The result is a work generated/compiled from both material and immaterial products of society's activity.
This exhibition is a way to explore society and the language of art. Using technical and artistic capabilities, we aim to focus society's attention on the relationship to resources, personal choice, and its impact on the environment we live in and the one we create for future generations.
BUS STOP OPENING EXHIBITION
"This stop is the road, it’s emigration, it’s the starting point of a place where we have been finding shelter for three years now. The bus stop is a public, nobody’s space, a place of waiting, observation, and transition from one state to another."
With love from&to Tumanian
The Tumanyan bus stop on the M6 highway was the first exhibition space for the workshop’s creations.
This stop is the road, it’s emigration, it’s the starting point of a place where we have been finding shelter for three years now. The bus stop is a public, nobody’s space, a place of waiting, observation, and transition from one state to another.
This stop is the road, it’s emigration, it’s the starting point of a place where we have been finding shelter for three years now. The bus stop is a public, nobody’s space, a place of waiting, observation, and transition from one state to another.
This is not my home, this is not my mountain, this is not my story, this is not my responsibility.
Our activity is a conversation about choice and responsibility for it. About the impact of globalization and centralization on small communities, their destruction, the depriving of people of initiative and their own development path. It’s about how these people remain on the sidelines, while history rushes past, pushing unresolved issues to the periphery, excluding these problems from its field of view and responsibility.
This story is about how through the attitude towards resources, one’s own and others’ labor and time, we can restore value, self-sufficiency, and autonomy.
This story is about how through the attitude towards resources, one’s own and others’ labor and time, we can restore value, self-sufficiency, and autonomy.
Artists: Andrey Strijkov, Aleksandra Korolyova with the participation of Aleksandra Kalinicheva
Curator: Aleksandra Korolyova
DJ: Yuriy Marin, Andrey Terentev
Photo: Lizetta Evaz, Petr Mashinets, Sasha Kama, Dina Nepomnyaschaya
Food: bakery on the road
Safe place: guesthouse "Artemi"
Curator: Aleksandra Korolyova
DJ: Yuriy Marin, Andrey Terentev
Photo: Lizetta Evaz, Petr Mashinets, Sasha Kama, Dina Nepomnyaschaya
Food: bakery on the road
Safe place: guesthouse "Artemi"
Sponsors and support:
Abastan Community
Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
СISR e.V. Berlin
