Synopsis of Native

• “KRASNENKAYA ANTIBIENNALE 2022” (St. Petersburg), curated by Ekaterina Vasilieva, 2023.
  

The art object consists of a 3×3m red translucent fabric and traces forming a fractal on it. The footprints are different in size and volume, made of different fabrics, and some are hand-tied. The art object is a reflection on the theme of “gene/native”. 

 For the past 15 years I have been moving from city to city, house to house, and now I am in another country. I don’t have a home of my own, and I have changed many apartments where I felt protected, cozy, calm. There have been places that I have become attached to, but I always felt that it was temporary. I don’t like my hometown and left it at the first opportunity, but it is my stepfather’s home: the place where I was born, where my childhood memories, traditions and rules of my family live; the place where my blood relatives gather. Wherever I am, I feel connected to this place. 

 I believe that each of us has a connection to our “home”, be it a close person, a place, a relative, a thing, a set of facts, events or whatever. That certain conditional point, with its own history and its own way, which influences us wherever we are. 

Thus, analyzing my life, I came to the conclusion that each of us has a connection with our “kin” — a certain conditional point, with its own history and its own way, which affects us wherever we are. 

 The fractal is made to represent the spatial and temporal intervals of life. The red fabric symbolizes kinship. The footprints are our path. Some of these footprints are quite conventional — forgotten. 

The work is presented once and was created as part of the Red Antibiennale 2022 project.