October 5th 2021 the Zverev Center of Contemporary Art will open its season with “The Hunt for the Soluble Fish” project. The exhibition will last through October 19. 30 artists from Russia, Belorussia, France, Mexico, and Germany will present works with elements of metaphysical search (paintings, graphical arts, photography, sculpture, animation, as well as a reading corner with zines and artists’ books.)
October 5th:
7:00 pm Exhibition opens
8:00 pm Musical performance “Fish Day”
In 1924 Andre Breton wrote the first “Manifesto of Surrealism”. Alongside it he published a
fantasmagorical poem called “The Soluble Fish”. The hunt itself is as absurd as the quoted work, but the artists here have kept the thread of surrealism in their works.
“Birds lose their form after they lose their colours.”
– Andre Breton, “The Soluble Fish”.
List of participating artists: Ioulia Akhmadeeva, Lily Balasanova, Yanina Boldyreva, Eugene Butenco, Irina Verner, Polina Gisich, Lisa Darbinyan, Eugenia Jaeger, Victoria Kokorina, Egor Koryagin, Viktoryia Krupskaya, Simon Lambrey, Alexandra Maximova, Ivan Maximov, Nina Murashkina, Varya Natkina, Maria Pinus, Anastasia Rydlevskaya, Sofia Sapozhnikova, Yulia Semchenko, Marina Skepner, Katya Susoeva, Igor Tishin, Kate Finkelstein, Alexandra Khakhan, Anna Tsvell, Stasys Šakarvis, Natasha Shalina, Jane Sharvina, Ksenia Shinkovskaya.
Project curator: Jane Sharvina
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“Fish Day”
Musical performance on the intersection of pseudo-science, technology and esoterics.
Beyond the human world there are conductors, whose hints can only be deciphered by decolonizing scientific thought. In gliding on the lines of life in the space of dimensions, stella marina migrates in flows of precautions, revelations, and predictions. The observers that are chosen to hear the inaudible can dissolve the shell of the uncharted, so they can advance to the state of transmutation and begin the search for truth with an open hand. Cerca trova.
List of performance participants:
Nadezhda Bakhshieva, Ivan Markov, Alyona Pozhidaeva
List of performance creators:
Nadezhda Bakhshieva, Yulia Semchenko, Alexandra Khahan, Mikhail Sedov,
Mikhail Puchkov.