Vladislav Efimov’s author’s version, «Architectural Photo and Space Research», was conducted as a joint educational project of the ICU School of Design of the U.S.U.S. and the Zotov Center.
Participants studied architectural photography and modern art practices in space management, using the Presnen region as an example. The training resulted in the creation of individual artistic projects presented at the Cruise Movement exhibition at the Zotov Centre. Participants: Anna Goroško, Elizabeth Bobok, Anastasia Lyach, Alexandra Fadeev, Julia Judin, Elena Karatun, Maria Gordeyev, Sofia Kladova, Lydia Schwetkov, Xenia Russ, Xenia Taran, Vasilis Shiliaeva, Maria Rogov, Maria Stirmanova, Nikolai Bujko, Elizabeth Stürin, Tatiana Fedorov, Maria Bavkina, Evgenia Tsoy, Eugenia Solomatin, Elizabeth Mareyev, Elizabeth Fursov, Varvar Titov, Zlat Manina, Alena Prahin, Eugenia Balokina, Maria Elutina.
Crucial Movement exhibition at the Zotov Center.
When you look at time as a sequence of moments recorded on the roll of the film, stories about each such fragment turn memories into a continuous sequence where each detail exists separately. This allows for the application of conceptual techniques and the production of a story in the form of a photographic series, paving not on facts but on the meaning and purpose of the area.
Crucial Movement exhibition at the Zotov Center.
The photographer, in his travel in search of nature, can describe circles or spirals, with his center having an important fixed point on his imaginary map of the area. Circulina, the agricultural combine Nesnaiki in the Sun City, is immediately remembered here. The car was cleaning the soil of the pests, planting seeds, providing a glorious harvest for the shorts of the Sun City, as it moved away from the central column on the round field. This automatic method of production has also been applied to the exhibition. By stripping a rope wrapped on a central drum and moving on the evolvent, you can fill the white spots of the map with steps. All of it is a field in which to grow meaning — and only an artist can designate it.
Crucial Movement exhibition at the Zotov Center.
The exhibition hall is round. The former bread factory, from which the participants measure the surrounding area with steps, is also a circle. The area can be compared to a round field that is cultivated by artists. The city of the sun is the capital of the technological and architectural fantasies of the Unknowing, and it is surprising and even enviable. Architect Vertibutylkin from a story novel with his rotating houses next to the sun gives everyone a good example of utopia, an artistic future, happiness in realizing a dream. So the exhibition goes round and round behind houses and districts that go after the sun themselves in search of the best insolation, and it repeats and draws out their circular movement on the new, ideal plan of the neighborhood.
Crucial Movement exhibition at the Zotov Center.
Project curators: Vladislav Efimov, Elena Karatun, Eugenia Solomatin. curatorial text: Vladislav Efimov Photo: Nikolai Buyko, Marusia Nice, Olga Gagua.
