Bullion
US$ 550
Overview
2023
Paper Print, Inkjet archival pigment print on Matt Litho-realistic Paper
Edition of 12
Dimensions: 75cm (H) x 50cm (W) / 29.5" (H) x 19.7" (W)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
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About the art
Artist statement
This project is a game-like on-line experience, dedicated to an interrupted ritual. Rituality is a most common yet coded thing that every human being experiences since childhood. Rituals can be cultural, religious, everyday and, of course, cyber. Why don’t we dive deep down the road of sub-consciousness in a hopeless attempt to deal with it all?.. The viewer is invited to freely penetrate the space using a mouse and a keyboard (or other provided input device), walking through the virtual swamp, finding puzzle pieces of meaning, interacting with objects. Experience is also given through the sound and rhythm, thus adding up not only the visual picture, but embracing all the feelings possible in the virtual space. What we create is a collective dream that people fall into by clicking on the website. Internet space is a psychoactive substance for immersion in a collective ritual. This place is a limb, a memory (which you can plunge into), an event from your personal past, a space for entering other realities. Although the basis of ritualism remains intersecting in all traditions, viewers are invited to bathe in an echo of the Soviet past, absorbed by the earth, a gloominess of an already dark experience. If you want to see it all – then you can follow the purple Guide that cycles around the prepared path. Cyclicity associated with rituals, eternal rebirth, reincarnation, symbolic transformation of the action. It is bubbling and blubbering with a special kind of speech – a sleep-talk.
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Artist profile
Vera Barkalova
Born: 1990
Hometown: Moscow
Based in: Moscow
Vera Barkalova (photographer), was born and raised in the Moscow region.
Got a degree in journalism (Alexander Gordon’s course) and has graduated from the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia (Igor Mukhin’s course). The artist exhibited not only in Russia, but also in Europe, Ukraine and Asia.
Vera worked in duo with …
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