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… is life beyond the bounds? Is it really possible to look beyond the bounds when the story ends? After the collapse of the building, is there a chance to restore its appearance in thousands of small debris scattered in chaotic garbage? ..
In Kineshma town, Ivanovo region, there is a culture’s house of the Krasnovolzhsky textile combine, an old Soviet building called the Nardom. The Soviet Union was over, but the club remained. Dmitry Okruzhnov and Maria Sharova have been renting a workshop in Nardom for 10 years. This space has become part of their personal history. The past is merged with the current present at the point of artist’s residence in this building. Artists continue the building’s history through their works. However, the walls are actually collapsing, the roof leaks, the heating has long been flowing into oblivion … Nowadays Nardom has acquired the appearance of space beyond the bounds, where reality converges with transcendence. Here Okruzhnov and Sharova create the post-internet and the post-technology painting, where technological elements allow us to designate a virtual unrealistic space and to change it. The space of their works is directly connected to the Internet, and the pixels become their main symbolic element. Artists never use any ready-made glitches or glitch programs, always personally transforming a photo, control the size of the pixels themselves, their color, shape and even the degree of unloading the image. There are few accidents in their works. The authors always find photos in the network space, not using their own. Dmitry Okruzhnov and Maria Sharova wanted to make a project about network ruins, they began to search information about the USSR in the Internet, but it turned out all of it was in scraps of fragments, like their Nardom, which became the starting point of thinking about the myth of the USSR. Artists belong to the people generation who grew up after the collapse of the Union, which actually knows nothing about the USSR, having access only to fragments of a lost civilization. You can dig into the network as much as you like, conduct network excavations, but the vision of the past will never form a complete picture. In this case, the Internet becomes a time filter, the focal simulacra’s point of the mythological ruined zone. First, Okruzhnov and Sharova manually create a flat pixels background to get a flat screen effect. Artists sought to create the immersive effect in a certain space, like underwater, so the color of pixel’s background wasn’t randomly selected. The ruined epoch’s wreckages begins to emerge in this background, trying to evolve into a single whole picture, which in fact will never turn out. These fragments are similar to the exfoliated, cracked plaster on the ruin’s walls or stuck fragments of paint, trying in vain to structure into the image. There is a constant interaction of the technological background and the figurative fragmented image in the canvas space, which completes the background. The media background is exposed behind the ruins. The picturesque space draws in itself, plunges into deserted rooms and endless corridors, there is emptiness and oblivion. The shaky frontier basis of modern life in everything, and any knowledge and action becomes doubtful…
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Turchina Olga, senior researcher in MMOMA.
Sound installation – 8:43 min.
