30 Days In Belgrade, 2024

Theme of this research is the duality of emigrant’s consciousness arising from cultures layering. The emigrant’s consciousness exists in 2 cultural modes: country of the origin and country of the residence. A distinctive feature of the duality is retrospectivity, comparison with previous experience and construction of an old behavior patterns in a new place. This strategy easily creates comfortable conditions of living, but complicates an adaptation. I use a method of estrangement to slow down the perception, fix this specific in-between position and preserve a fresh eye to turn duality of consciousness into advantage. 

I started with everyday practice tracking my routes with Google maps to rethink it afterwards. It’s the first stage of estranging the walk — fixing the physical exploration of space and transferring physics to a digital environment. The second stage of estranging is the inversion of the digital route into an analog form and its manual elaboration with embroidery.

WHILE NEW YEAR. WHILE WE ARE ADULTS

23.01.2024 — 07.02.2024

Curators: Olga Makhno, Mikhail Levin

U Residence, Artplay, Moscow