Easy
Exhibition architecture and design
The Cosmos Pavilion, VDNKh, Moscow
120 m2
04.12.2018–08.01.2019
The exhibition of Anastasia Vepreva Easy is held as part of the TAKE-OFF project, organised on the VDNH premises. Vepreva’s works are not highly expressive in conveying sentiments and prefer to speak to the viewer in a rather bold and direct language, which, unlike the VDNKh sites, has few ‘decorations’. This exhibition is organised into three sections, which are contain multiple compounds. This exhibition showcases images of disjointed and collapsed machines. The artist puts it out: ‘In order to become free, the machine has to die.’ With the ever-growing importance of machines in human life, this statement seems to acquire more and more urgency indeed.
Many Moscow conceptualists have treated the subject of flying: Kabakov has launched into flight some characters of his albums for no particular reason; Pepperstein’s characters, fully naked, are flying in safe airplanes; Moscow party-goers are seen flying in Pivovarov’s drawings; cleaning ladies keep floating in Prigov’s installations. Anastasia Vepreva completes the subject of flight with veritably tragic notes, which are exalted but not hopeless. Disasters are compelled episodes in flying; it’s a fee human pays for taming gravity. They are related to the states every human being experiences daily –sleep, experiencing the unknown, the unconscious. They are related to humankind’s dream of flying.
Sergey Popov
Artist: Anastasia Vepreva
Curator: Sergey Popov
Project Director: Irina Golinskaya
Project Manager: Oleg Loboda
Music: Dina Karaman
Photo: Vera Barkalova