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Translation of Compelxity x SOUND:frame

1/10/2019

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Translation of Complexity — a group exhibition at Improper Walls, Aa collections, Artivive App, METAWARE, Tagtool and Ein Affe in cooperation with SOUND:frame

​// Artists :
Morehshin Allahyari, Anna Ridler, Cat Jimenez, Benjamin Weber, Arno Deutschbauer, Herwig Scherabon, Lukas Fliszar (101), Michael Ari (101), nita. studio für visuelle gestaltung., MONOCOLOR, Litto, OMAi Tagtool, Dalia Ahmed, Joja, Hidéo SNES.
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Translation of Complexity x Aa Collections


At Aa Collection artist Morehshin Allahyari and Anna Ridler approach complex narratives from two different angles. While Morehshin rewrites and reimagines the stories of dark goddesses from the middle east, Anna brings back the forgotten past of an economic collapse through comparing the 17th century tulip-mania with cryptocurrency today.  


In the exhibition ground floor we enter the stories of Huma and the Laughing Snake, two middle eastern female jinns of Morehshin’s series SHE WHO SEES THE UNKNOWN. Huma, the jinn who brings fever to humankind, will slowly reveal her monstress and powerful appearance in the video projected, while Morehshin’s poetic voice over tells us how the fever today expands and heats up the earth. Global warming and the western dominated dialogue around climate change is the topic she addresses. Watch and listen. Click and read is the instruction for Laughing Snake, a interactive online piece commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Liverpool Biennial and Fact Liverpool. The changing and possibly repeating narratives give a very personal glimpse of Morehshin’s perception and interpretation of female bodies, hysteria and delirium in the middle east. More layers and aspects can be discovered in her ongoing research library titled Maktbabkhaneh (The Reading Room), a persian word for primary school. Take your time to explore the images and readings and find out more about SHE WHO SEES THE UNKNOWN.  

The staircase in the back of the space will guide you to Anna Ridler’s work Mosaic-virus. It refers to the 17th century dutch tulip mania which is known as one of the first speculative economic bubbles. Tulips were status symbols and became luxury goods at the time. Their prices started to deviated drastically from their intrinsic values until the market collapsed. In her video Anna’s tulips bloom depending on the current bitcoin price. If the flowers are wide open bitcoin is skyrocketing, if they’re closed the price is down. Bitcoin, as a hyped and also unstable digital currency, climbs and falls on the market very fast and with huge deviations. Anna trained an AI with her own data set of thousand tulip photographs in order to create different versions of the data visualizations. It is possible to see how fast the price changes within a second, minute and hour as well as the fluctuation in the market. A beautiful detail of this story and Anna’s piece is, that the tulips with a rare striped pattern were the most precious ones -- and the reason for this pattern was, a virus which is transmitted by bugs. This was the Mosaic-virus. Again many more layers of Anna’s work can be explored through reading the articles and watch her talk at IMPAKT Festival in the second room.

Morehshin’s and Anna’s artistic positions are strong examples for how art can disentangle complexity. Complexity won’t go away of course, but their work allows us to understand bits and pieces. It allows us to step outside and think of other perspectives through historical references and unknown mythology. New input and context gives room for new solutions and possibilities.

Text by Laura Welzenbach
curated by  
Laura Welzenbach & Georgij Melnikov
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Morehshin Allahyari 
is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Morehshin is the co-author of The 3D Additivist Cookbook in collaboration with writer/artist Daniel Rourke– (published on December 2016 online in 3D PDF format and in print by the Institute of Networked Cultures). Her modeled, 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS, have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine and she was recently awarded two major commissions by Rhizome  as well as the Whitney museum of Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT to work on developing archival and web-based aspects of this project, which will also be in the show.

www.morehshin.com 

She Who Sees the Unknown (2017 – present)
Allahyari is currently developing a new body of work on Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’ as a Feminism and de-colonialism practice, using 3D scanners and 3D printers as her tools of investigation. Researching dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises a narrative through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving.

1- Archiving: researching and gathering an image and text archive of dark goddesses and female jinn and monstrous figure of the Middle-East origin, mostly from ancient mythical stories and resources (an archive that does not exist in any form). This archive will take the format of both a physical reading room, a book (in collaboration with an Archaeologist friend and Imam in Iran), as well as an online web based archive that will be available for free online.

2- Production: creating a selection of 12 of these figures by re-appropriating and 3D modeling them from different ancient illustrations. Then 3D scanning the 3D printed models as a series of ritual ceremonial performances as well as video material for storytelling. I imagine the 3D printed sculptures to become an army of dark figures existing alongside a series of re-appropriated and mashed up talismans that I will source out from different Farsi and Arabic fawātih (فواتح) or “openers”, and other occult divinations.

3- Storytelling: writing a separate narrative about each figure in form of video essay/fiction that uses the initial superpower/abilities of the specific jinn, goddess, monstrous figure but connects it to some form of contemporary oppression and colonialism.

Huma
Huma is a jinn known in various Middle-Eastern tales and myths who"brings heat to the human body and is responsible for the common fever." The text for this video sits between fact and fiction as a way to re-appropriate her power: bringing heat to the contemporary horror of our time; I relate the jinn‘s warming powers to global warming and sees her as a poetic representation of those excluded from the Western-dominated conversations of climate change.
2016, HD single channel video with audio, edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs, 
Courtesy of the artist and Upfor Gallery

The laughing Snake
The various myths told about the Laughing Snake, reveal the story of a monstrous figure (some believe an al-Jinn), who has taken over a city and its lands, murdering its people and animals. Over the years there are many attempts at destroying this jinn, but yield no success. One day, hope is sparked when an old man living in a cave comes forth with a revelation: the only way to kill the snake is to hold a mirror in front of her. When people do so, and the snake sees her own image in the mirror, she starts laughing. She laughs for days and nights until she self-destroys and dies. Through the re-telling of this story, somewhere between fact and fiction, I use the concept of the Laughing Snake and the mirror as symbols to reflect on a series of personal and imagined stories in relationship to hysteria, delirium, and female body in the Middle-east. The interactive online piece is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) for Liverpool Biennial 2018.

Maktbabkhaneh (Reading Room) is a growing library of an in progress research by Morehshin Allahyari as part of She Who Sees The Unknown project.
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Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London. She has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Oxford University, University of Arts London and have shown at a variety of cultural institutions and galleries including Ars Electronica, Sheffield Documentary Festival, Leverhulme Centre for Future Intelligence, Tate Modern and the V&A. She is a recipient of this year's European Media Art Program and the winner of the 2018-2019 Dare Art Prize. She has been commissioned by Opera North, Live Cinema UK and Impakt Festival to create works. She is interested in working with collections of information or data, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums, and how new technologies, such as machine learning, can be used to translate them to an audience. She is currently working with and researching the creative potential of machine learning, and how it relates to drawing and painting.
annaridler.com 

Mosaic-virus (2018 – work in progress)
Drawing historical parallels from “tulip-mania” that swept across Netherlands/Europe in the 1630s to the speculation currently ongoing around crypto-currencies, this video work is generated by an artificial intelligence (AI). It  shows tulips blooming, an updated version of a Dutch still life for the 21st century. The appearance of the tulip is controlled by bitcoin price. “Mosaic” is the name of the virus that causes the stripes in a petal which increased their desirability and helped cause the speculative prices during the time. In this piece, the stripes depend on the value of bitcoin, changing over time to show how the market fluctuates.
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Aadventmarkt Renegades / DeAKTIONzember II

12/6/2018

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by Anemarie Fratzberger, Manuela Picallo Gil, Julia Zastava, Osama Zatar, Rina Grinn, Elena Mildner, Edelzeug und Meilenstein,
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Der etwas andere Adventmarkt für alle Weihnachts-Escapisten, WhamWiederholungsOpfer, RaptorJesusApostel und Quadrate in Kreisen die immer wieder anecken! Jetzt gibts die Alternative zum Spitelberg und Rathausplatz der DeAktionZember II indoor AAdventmarkt mit Punsch in the Guts, Alternative Fact Toilettenpapier, Rassier Glocks, Kalaschnikov Geigen und vielem mehr...! ​
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Blendwerk / Stadt in den Wolken

11/21/2018

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Offerus Ablinger & Hagendorfer
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Ein Ausstellung im Rahmen der Vienna Art Week 2018

Offerus Ablinger / Hagendorfer präsentieren „Blendwerk / Stadt in den Wolken“. In der Schwebe zwischen oben und unten schafft das Kollektiv mit einer raumgreifenden Installation eine utopisch/dystopische Landschaft, in welcher sie urbane Mechansimen von Subkultur und Normativität hinterfragen. Ein Vakuum der Neuzeit.
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La Raza

11/1/2018

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Allan Villavicencio, Sofia Cruz, Maximiliano León, Lucía Vídales, Christian Camacho, Karla Kaplún, Miriam Esther Meyer, José Eduardo Barajas "El Mazeco", Yaol Bruin, Pablo Cendejas, Marco Aviña, Daniel Huettler, Fernando "Toro" Garibay, Marco Rountree;
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curated by Maximiliano León
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An exhibition breathing mexican culture, expressing that particular flavour in classic medium of painting, film and sculptur but with contemporary style.  The exhibition titel "la raza" translated "the race" is used in common speech referering to the friends, the clique, the familiy . With that the show reflects on topics like origin identity and racism, all of it subjects dominating the in and outside views on mexicos/mexican relations to the neighbouring countries and people.  At the end it is a playfull and esthetic dialogue between contemporary cosmopolitan culture and south american heritage.
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Von der Hand in den Mund

9/6/2018

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by Lisa Edi, Vera Klimentyeva, Milan Mladenovic, Georgij Melnikov, Gert Resinger,
​Soso Phist, Adele Raczkövi, Johannes Rass, Mariya Vasilyeva,
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curated by Georgij Melnikov
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"Von der Hand ...

Es ist "a Läifstail" wie der Leiter der Feinkostabteilung damals sagte, direkte in die Goschn Demokratie, Volksentscheid Futterneid, Mund auf Augen zu, friss oder iss - aber Hauptsache den Mund zu voll genommen und ich frage euch wo soll sich das noch ausgehen?

Aber ja das geht sich aus, ja das geht sich aus und dann uuuiiii großartig, a schas, a traum, a wonsin,... aber dann host wieder nix, nix mehr in der Toschen, Kunst ma noch a göld leihn.... aber jo noch a bisal wos is do... a wengal Nachgeschmack von fria in der pappn...

Ja dann denkst du so, wo habe ich nur meine Hände wieder hingetan wo sind sie bloss und wenn dein Arschloch der Anfang meines Sprachrohrs ist,... dann ruf ich hinein nach einer Helfenden Hand und es schallt aus dem Mund ein Echo von der Hand zurück in die Schlucht...herab in den Schlund, den Rachen .

...in den Mund"

text by MelniEm
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Das Glück der Erde

7/20/2018

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Sophia Süßmilch

Sophia Süßmilch, Trägerin des diesjährigen bayerischen Kunstförderpreises, hat für die Ausstellung „Das Glück der Erde“ eine großformatige Bildserie gemalt in der sie mit der Thematik Mädchen und Pferde auseinander setzt und was das mit Feminismus und Macht zu tun hat. Zu sehen sind außerdem Kleinformate und eine Sammlung an Pferdeskulpturen. Die Künstlerin ist zur Eröffnung anwesend. Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!
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I need Space

6/1/2018

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Ali Algburi / Julia Faber / Dobroslav Houbenov / Florian Lang / Georgij Melnikov / Verena Andrea Prenner / Johannes Rass / Ela Sattler / Sophia Süßmilch /

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Quite a bunch of steps it took and most likely mankinde didnt even realized that the Aa Collections Gallery changed their physical Location to a new space and a new neighbourhood.
Non the less this was a big step for us and a Milstone that defined the future ways we had to take.

The first exhibition in the new location was dedicated to topic of searching for space in a variety of ways. Such as person physicaly longing for a home, psychological protection, the general need of freedom, as political statment definding once position, or as a metphysical journey. 
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DREISECHSFUENF #2

6/2/2017

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DREISECHSFUENF
ist ein transdisziplinäres Kunstfestival und ein Netzwerk.
Zentral geht es uns um eine beschleunigte Form von Ausstellungproduktion und Präsentation.
An 15 aufeinanderfolgenden Tagen nutzt das Festival einen Kunstraum so intensiv wie möglich um 15 Ausstellungen zu zeigen. Einzelne Tage werden  von einem jeweils neuen Kurator oder Kuratorenteam gestaltet.
Mit der 2 Auflage des Festivals wurden 30 Ausstellungen realisiert, 17 KuratorInnen und Kuratoren-teams und an die 150 Künstler waren beteiligt. Jeden Tag Vernissagen, Talks, Lectures, Workshops, Konzerte aber auch der Auf- und Abbau. Durch das vielschichtige Vermittlungsprogramm, wird das Festival zu einer Dauer-Performance, zu einem sich ständig transformierendem, soziokulturellem Konstrukt.
Durch die Auswahl der KuratorInnen bezieht das Projekt möglichst unterschiedliche kulturelle Sparten mit ein. Dabei präsentiert von klassischer Musik bis zu zeitgenössischer Performance, Interventionen, multimediale Installationen, partizipatorische Objekte, bildnerische und kulturphilosophische Positionen.
Es ist die Auswahl der Kuratorinnen, was das Festival einzigartig macht.
Bei DREISECHSFUENF zeigt sich ein Querschnitt an etablierten als auch aufstrebenden KünstlerInnen und KulturarbeiterInnen. Wir bieten den Projekten Raum, mediale Präsenz, Support und ein großes Netzwerk.
Neben täglichen Ausstellungseröffnungen gibt es ein dichtes begleitendes Rahmenprogramm.

KuratorInnen

Ateliertheater www.ateliertheater.net
Violetta Ehnsperg www.violettaehnsperg.berta.me
Nina Fountedakis www.ninafountedakis.com
g7, grundsteinsieben www.grundsteinsieben.at
Stefanie Koscher www.vimeo.com/steffko
Lluís Lipp www.theartchamp.com
Bob Mâlle
Lukas Matuschek www.lukasmatuschek.net
Georgij Melnikov www.georgijmelnikov.com
Gert Resinger www.gertresinger.com
Carolina Laura Rotter
Tatjana Schmidt www.tatjanaschmidt.com
Ruby Sircar
Anastasia Soutormina
Bojana Stamenkovic
Anny Wass www.annesophiewass.wordpress.com
KünstlerInnen

Ona B / Filip Borelli / Linda Berger / Andreas Berger / Blockflötengewitter / Sophie Marie Csenar / Adam Cohen / Bartosz Dolhun / Alicia Edelweiss / Violetta Ehnsperg / Esther Eigner / Signe Erichsen / Elisabeth Falkinger / Heber Ferraz-Leite / Nina Fountedakis / Luca Fuchs / Barbara Füreder / Ursula Gaisbauer / Jörg Gottschalk / Xaver Gschnitzer / Martin Grandits / Almuth Gruber / Nora Gutwenger / Thomas Havlik / Mathias Hantho / Michael Heindl / Heyt be / Michaela Hinterleitner / Fritz Hortig / Olivier Hölzl / Jakob Hösl / Katharina Kawalle / Claudia Keil / Kristin Kelich / Selma Klima / KLITCLIQUE / Katharina Kostroubina / Lisa Kuglitsch / Paul Leitner / Alfred Lenz / Lilagarten / Govinda Gonzo Lindenthal / Gisella Linschinger / Litto / Thaer Maarouf / Wolfgang Macura / Michael Masen / Martina Menegon / Georgij Melnikov / MICKEY / Elena Mildner / Rini Mitra / Lee Monty / Crystin Moritz / Alina Özyurt / Paule Perrier / Pussy Propeller / pseudoscienza / Anna Reschl / Gert Resinger / Lena Rot / Joseph Rudolf / Saleh Rozati / Zsombor Sàli / Jasmin Schaitl / Anthea Schranz / Tatjana Schmidt / Marina Schütze / SlowForward / Soybot / Steinkleubel & Kaiblschinder / Andrew Stix /  Sophia Süßmilch / Monika Tatrai / Nicholas Treadwell /  Claudia Ungersbäck / Aleksandar Vucenovic / Denny Voch / Elisabeth Ward / Anne-Sophie Wass / Anna Werzowa / Robert Weiss / Niklas Worisch / (zero)wastelady / Oksana Zmiyevska

Programm

02.06. Kaleidoskop Morgengrauen
Vernissage ab 18:00 Uhr Aa Collections

Martin Grandits
Olivier Hölzl
KLITCLIQUE
Sophia Süßmilch
Claudia Ungersbäck
curated by: Georgij Melnikov

DREISECHSFUENF #2 Opening Party, mit Nicholas Treadwell (live),
Syllablesshooter Soundpoetry-Performance von Thomas Havlik,
Lieber Michael…ab 22:00 Uhr im Ateliertheater

03.06. Rini meets Shuvo

Rini Mitra
Rafiqul Shuvo
curated by: Ruby Sircar

04.06. VENI VINI VERNI IV

Andrew Stix
curated by: Gert Resinger

05.06. HUMAN NATURE
intermedial installation/performance

Paule Perrier (sound) 
Elisabeth Ward (dance)
Oksana Zmiyevska (sculpture) 
curated by: Stefanie Koscher

06.06. ONA B. DREAM STORE – DREAM Collector

curated by: Ateliertheater

07.06. Primary - Binary - Vulgary - Calgary

Signe Erichsen
Mathias Hantho
Violetta Ehnsperg
Govinda Gonzo Lindenthal
Steinkleubel & Kaiblschinder
curated by: Bob Mâlle

08.06. I nailed it

Objekte aus den privaten Sammlungen von Tatjana Schmidt und Jörg Gottschalk
curated by: Tatjana Schmidt

09.06. Be my dear guest


Sophie Marie Csenar
Luca Fuchs
Fritz Hortig
Selma Klima
Katharina Kostroubina
Kristin Kelich
Lisa Kuglitsch
Crystin Moritz
Lee Monty
Zsombor Sàli
Anthea Schranz
Aleksandar Vucenovic
curated by: Violetta Ehnsperg and Carolina Laura Rotter

10.06. I am Not... - Did your Sense of Uncertainty Provoke Negation in You?

Thaer Maarouf
curated by: Bojana Stamenkovic
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​11.06. WeProductionStore


Adam Cohen
Heyt be 
Olivier Hölzl
Katharina Kawalle
KLITCLIQUE
Georgij Melnikov
Lilagarten
Pussy Propeller
pseudoscienza
Gert Resinger
Joseph Rudolf
Anne-Sophie Wass
Soybot
(zero)wastelady
hosted by: Anny Wass

12.06. wir WOLLEN das
space and time created through the use of thread and wool

Filip Borelli
Nina Fountedakis
Barbara Füreder
Jasmin Schaitl
SlowForward
Monika Tatrai
curated by: Nina Fountedakis

Mit Unterstützung des Aussenministeriums, im Rahmen des Kulturjahres 2017

13.06. Glei5

group show
curated by: Lukas Matuschek

14.06. via g7, grundsteinsieben

Andreas Berger 
Blockflötengewitter
Esther Eigner
Elisabeth Falkinger 
Heber Ferraz-Leite
Almuth Gruber
Michaela Hinterleitner
Jakob Hösl
Claudia Keil
Gisella Linschinger
Wolfgang Macura
mar
Michael Masen
Alina Özyurt
Marina Schütze
Denny Voch
curated by: g7, grundsteinsieben

15.06. Wiederholungen
forms of repetition in contemporary art

Linda Berger
Bartosz Dolhun
Xaver Gschnitzer
Michael Heindl
Paul Leitner
Alfred Lenz
Martina Menegon
Anna Werzowa
Niklas Worisch
curated by: Lluís Lipp

16.06. lets talk about art
Exhibition / Think Tank / Café:

Litto
Elena Mildner
Anna Reschl
Lena Rot
Saleh Rozati
zine workshop by [´faebrik]
curated by: Anastasia Soutormina

ab 21:00 DREISECHSFUENF #2 Closure Party, mit MICKEY, EP Release!!! im Atelier Schrenk, Kaiserstraße 79/1, 1070
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WIDERMAYER innen-drinnen draußen-außen

5/4/2017

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Georgij Melnikov, Raffael Miribung, Ela Aloisia Sattler,  Vera Sebert,
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Der Inhalt nach außen gekehrt, die Umwelt nach innen gezogen, den eigenen Eindruck vom Ausdruck des Anderen extrovertiert wiedergegeben.

In einer Interaktiven Multimedialen Assemblage versetzen und vertauschen, 4 Kunstschaffende, Perspektiven und relativieren die Standpunkte, Dimensionalen Zugehörigkeiten, Raum und Zeitverständnisse der Betrachtenden.

WIDERMAYER steht WIDER dem Biedermayerlichen Verständnisses des Inneren oder/und Äußeren und ruft zum entarteten Dimensions Wechsel und frivolen Ebenen Tausch auf.

Find your Companion Cube, get transferred to a potato, be a bird!
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Fairy Tales of the Wild East

4/6/2017

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Vera Klimentyeva
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Vera Klimentyeva (*1988 in Moscow, USSR) is a visual artist focused on topics of identity, overidentification, religion, social role models, deconstruction and transformation. 

In her artworks she seeks explanations and answers to various
questions in regard of nowadays situation of different contents, which often deal with gender roles, such concepts as home, cultural heritage, unconditional love, stereotypical national features and symbolism.

In the exhibition "Fairy Tales of the Wild East" the artist is dissecting eastern ideolodical and mythological symbols of the middle- and late 20th century, creating from the outcome a modular system for future mythological ideologies.
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