STREET EXHIBITION-INSTALLATION
BY ANDREY VRADY & BOGDAN MAMONOV
«Outside the Law»
Our work is simple. It consists of the lattice bad and the mirror. The viewer, who wants to look into it, sees himself as if he stands behind bars.
From our point of view, contemporary art has become a prison of spirit. This is a dream that enslaves the viewer and the artist. Stop sleeping. Let’s see life as it really is. Let us be outside the law, which imposes the contemporary art.
«Dormitory District» is an interactive open-air installation located in one of Moscow’s dormitory districts. About 70 contemporary Russian artists were invited to participate; each of them will produce a unique art object out of a commonplace iron bed.
This project gives an affirmative answer to the question if the functioning of contemporary art is possible far from the city center, among the concrete blocks located beyond the Moscow circular motorway. The first associations the word combination «dormitory district» evokes in most people are: walks in the park, drinking cold beer on the benches, and finally resting — i.e. bed...The facelessness of the capital’s dormitory districts, lack of cultural institutions and the consequent detachment from the dynamic artistic process were a stimulus for the organizers. «Dormitory District» develops a well-known tradition of European biennials and festivals to transform streets into artistic objects, transfiguring the city and involving its dwellers in the creative experience. The project also meets the theme of the main exhibition of the 3rd Moscow Biennale — «Against Exception», for it is absolutely impossible to exclude dormitory districts from the cultural life of a metropolis.
«Outside the Law»,
Our work is simple. It consists of the lattice bed and the mirror.
The viewer, who wants to look into it, sees himself as if he stands behind bars.
From our point of view, contemporary art has become a prison of spirit. This is a dream that enslaves the viewer and the artist.
Stop sleeping. Let's see life as it really is. Let us be outside the law, which imposes the contemporary art.
juliana & andrey vrady