Event (gap)
Photo series, 2014
The series of photos by Zvyagintseva document almost unnoticeable objects or changes that have remained in the Maidan bearing witness of the recent events in the otherwise orderly and quiet environment. Artist is interested in what happens in the situations when the events larger than everyday life occur giving a sense of being touched by history and causing one to lose the sense of reality. The sensation of unreal makes one feel that everything that happens is a theater and the suspicion arises that someone directs it. Meanwhile, reality is somewhere nearby, and its staging marks its borders. In both camps people desperately try to rush out towards the reality, but they only get more entangled, more implicated in the staged plot. As if the parts of something that used to be a union have revolted against each other, discovering there is the void between them. One part is the territory of struggle, history, blood, and the other one is the space of the everyday, the non-historical. There is a between them.
Artist's Bio:
Anna Zvyagintseva was born 1986 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. She lives and works in Kyiv. Zvyagintseva studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv. She was a finalist in the 2013 and 2015 Pinchuk Art Prize . She has been a member of the curatorial group Hudrada since 2010, and in 2011 was co-founder of ISTM (Art Workers’ Self-Defense Initiative). Zvyagintseva has participated in exhibitions in Ukraine and internationally, in 2015 she participated in the Ukrainian pavilion exhibition in the 56th Venice Biennale.