'Potsherds and Spindles. Joy and Burden': New Exhibition at HSE ART GALLERY
A series of paired solo exhibitions has been launched at the HSE ART GALLERY on Pionerskaya: projects by teachers and students of the HSE Art and Design School are now exhibited at one venue. The first project in this series is by Vladislav Efimov, a teacher, and Alexandra Zamuruyeva, a student of the ‘Design and Contemporary Art’ programme.
Vladislav’s and Alexandra’s objects displayed at the exhibition combine reflections on the phenomenon of human labour. Simple domestic production, which provides subsistence farming with household items and devices for their creation, contains the poetry of both originality and constraint. Pots, cloths, spindles, tangles of thread, and other simple belongings take on the form and shape predetermined by their function. The urge of things to exist, their barely noticeable development over time, and slow evolution reflect humans’ movement towards stability and settlement, for which they have given up the freedom of nomadic hunters.
Such attributes of the worker form an exposition, resembling the collection of a local history museum in its structure, though it is not assigned to any real region. By compiling this fictional archive dedicated to thorough work and its results, one can take the simplest thing that is already in abundance on the planet as a basis.
Simply working, carving a few spindles, or weaving a few threads together—this simple practice is the essence of art. Though it has long transcended the status of a craft, each time it reinvents its own foundations
About the artists
Vladislav Efimov
Artist, curator, and photographer. Lecturer in the programmes of Photography and Contemporary Art at the HSE Art and Design School, and head of the ‘Project Photography’ workshop at the Rodchenko School. Winner of the Innovation Award in the field of contemporary art, and twice winner of the Golden Ratio Architectural Award. His works are held in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St Petersburg), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), MMOMA (Moscow), the National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow), n.b.k. (Berlin), and the Museum of Moscow.
Alexandra Zamurueva
She was born in 2001 in the city of Rezh (Sverdlovsk region). Now she studies and works in Moscow. She is a student in the field of Design and Contemporary Art at the HSE Art and Design School. Alexandra works in various mediums: performance, photography, graphics, installation, and object.
Organisers: HSE Art and Design School and HSE ART GALLERY
The exhibition is open from June 28 to August 31, 2024.
Address: 12 Malaya Pionerskaya Ulitsa
Working time: Tuesday–Sunday, 12:00 pm–8:00 pm
Free entrance
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