MOSCOW GOVERNMENT, MOSCOW DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, MULTIMEDIA ART MUSEUM, MOSCOW / MUSEUM "MOSCOW HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY", MOSCOW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART present an exhibition at the IX Moscow International BIENNALE "FASHION AND STYLE IN PHOTOGRAPHY 2015".
The opening will take place at February 19 at 19:00 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Gogol Str., 10, b. 1.
Mary Reid Kelley
Curator: Gerald Matt
Co-curator: Katarzyna Uzhinska
The project is presented by Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Moscow
Chen Chzhagan "Kalpa"
Curator: Olga Sviblova
The project is presented by Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, and Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
With the support of: Ahmad Tea in Russia
"Not [own] temporary"
Curator: Nadia Sheremetova
Presented by "FotoDepartament", St. Petersburg
With the support of: Panasonic
Lily Li-mi-Yan «Masters / Servants»
The project is presented by the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia of Alexander Rodchenko
With the support of: Panasonic
Maria Ionova – Gribina "Almost like all girls"
Curator: Nina Levitina
Presented by the Museum "Moscow House of Photography"
With the support of: Panasonic
Exhibition will be held from February 19 2015 to March 29, 2015.
Young American artist Mary Reid Kelley, winner of the prestigious scholarship of Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in her work combines techniques of painting and drawing, which she studied at Yale University, with performances, theatre, sculpture and literature. Black – white video -stories of Mary Reid Kelley are animated, three-dimensional; talking pictures ironically play up the aesthetics of cubism, expressionism and surrealism.
The artist explores the position of women and their struggle for freedom and equality, vesting their stories in the form of poems, filled with sarcastic humour. Her attention is drawn to the historical period marked by profound political, social, economic and cultural fractures – such as the First World War and the French Revolution. Mary Reid Kelley creates her works herself – from the script, costumes and scenery design and finishing by video shooting; her husband, Patrick Kelley, acts as an expert in the field of film and digital processing; and the main role performed by the artist herself and her family.
Chen Chzhagan – is a professional architect and artist. He studied architecture at the Chongqing University, and in 1999 was named by UN one of the 12 "outstanding young architects" of the world. At first Chen Chzhagan draws sketches of his future works, and then using the large format camera takes pictures. The taken pictures Chen processes on computer and sometimes composes several different shots into a single image.
Chen Chzhagan talks about human and industrial drama being played out in the remote provinces of western China just a few decades ago, when the Chinese government has adopted a program "Third Front", which in view of a possible war prescribed to transfer the vital important heavy industry in the forbidding mountains, away from the coast and close to the sources of resources. Millions of workers were brought in immediately built cities necessary for the construction and operation of large industrial complexes. In the 1980s, the Chinese government has adopted a policy of market economy; a new economic system did not need outdated factories and cities built around them. The workers returned to their homes, and cities and factories in the mountains were deserted. On the pictures by Chzhagan faced destruction and prosperity, faith in China's development and the challenges posed by this development.
"Not [own] temporary" – is a project in which 13 photographers and artists from different cities of Russia respond to the question, what, in their opinion, concepts are intransient, primordial, fundamental for our country, can there be dialogue between generations and ideologies. "Not [own] temporary" – is a reflection about the time that formed us and the collective memory, thanks to which we can try to understand the present, it is an attempt to find a common space of experience, find a common field, which is always greater than that offered to every generation ideology, attempt to formulate a dream of the country that everyone carries within himself. Artists explore the ideological, historical and personal space, identifying the most important rituals, semantic and visual codes by which we recognize that they belong to the same culture.
Participants: Natalia Baluta (Moscow), Philip Beloborodov (St. Petersburg), Alexei Bogolepov (St. Petersburg), Anastasia Bogomolova (Chelyabinsk), Andrey Ivanov (Moscow), Alla Mirovska (Moscow), Eugene Molodtcov (St. Petersburg), Natasha Podunova (Ekaterinburg), Mary Sakirko (Moscow), Elena Kholkina (Moscow), Elena Churikova (Moscow), Fyodor Shklyaruk (Moscow), Katya Yushkevich (St. Petersburg). Curator: Nadia Sheremetova, FotoDepartament (Saint – Petersburg).
Lily Li – mi – Yan, a graduate of the Moscow School of Photography and Multimediaof Alexander Rodchenko, the winner of the Kandinsky Prize 2014 in the category "Project of the Year" in the Biennale "Fashion and Style in Photography" presents a project «Masters / Servants».
On the pictures by Li – mi – Yan – are maids, stewards, cooks, gardeners, posing in the interiors of luxury mansions, where they work together with their masters. The author reflects about what niche is occupied by service personnel in the global sphere of services and what place is given to it in modern Russia, which features inherent to our mentality, how to relate to their status employees and employers, where passes a fine line between personal and professional, the ability to be indispensable and invisible, keeping the distance.
The project of Maria Ionova – Gribina "Almost like all girls" is devoted to the phenomenon of "Selfe" and its place in our lives and in contemporary art. Selfe – is a self-portrait has taken using the phone and a mirror or just a phone for posting on blogs and social networks. Several years ago, the genre of "Selfe" conquered the whole world; about Selfe are passionate pupils and students, movie stars and presidents.
The principal difference between Selfe from the other arts is in its fragility. To be appreciated and not forgotten, you have to constantly shoot and post your pictures, like to confirm the fact of your existence, whereas at the beginning of the last century, photography was expensive, and are not available to all, deciding to take photographs, man has sought to show himself to the fullest favourable light, and in our country, even a few decades ago, a hike in a photo studio was a real event.
"My project raises the question of values – artistic, cultural, historical and personal – of those ephemeral self-portraits, which each of us produces hundreds and which surround us and our friends with a continuous virtual cloud – writes Maria Ionova – Gribina in the preface to the project.
