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  • Compass -
    Compass is a kind of orientation machine to wear around your waist that gives you directions while you are walking through virtual corridors and rooms. These have been programmed to fit the physical exhibition space or any other venue. The machine...
  • Orbit -
    A light source rotates around the visitors like a satellite, causing their shadows to rotate like a clock. The waxing and disappearing of the shadow distort their faces. Although it turns about 1440 times faster than the midnight sun at the North...
  • Mirror -
    A dark room with a large vibrating mirror deforms the reflection of the visitor. (The installation is to be visited individually.) At first the vibrations are so subtle that you might wonder if it are your own eyes that are having trouble to focus....
  • Conclusive Evidence -
    Conclusive Evidence is the title of one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels, which deals with his experience of emigration. In the Russian version, which appeared a few years later, the same novel was called Other Shores. This play on the titles is all the...
  • Conquistadores -
    The digital animation "Conquistadors" examines the tensions and conflicts that define the Russian territory in the age of privatization. The artist reflects on current modes of domination, both foreign and domestic, on the Russian territory, and...
  • CrossWorlds -
    For me, as an artist working with software CONSPIRE is first about encoding. As an ex-soviet, I perceive CONSPIRE in the same time like a dissident’s practice (an other way of encoding!) and like a monitoring following by manipulation – all kind of...
  • Douce France -
    Douce France is in situ project for Abbey de Maubuisson.The Abbey appears to Olga Kisseleva as a paradigm of this “Douce France” she had dreamed in Russia. But her work is ironical, it draws up an image of a globalized world, dominated by capital and...
  • Fitness Art Centre -
    Three screens are linked to three body-building machines that visitors are invited to use. Doing so activates images of demonstrators projected onto the screens but blurred by the random appearance and disappearance of big brand logos. The whole...
  • Hidden -
    video graphics works Censorship is totally integrated into information production and distribution. In the photographic series Hidden, gore and zoophile images have been randomly integrated into the censored image. But censoring the images increases...
  • Landstream -
    Landstream visualizes the flux produced by communication technologies, the invisible signals which cross through us, and of which we are, most of the time, completely unaware. A programme analyses the flux running through a space, and transforms the...