The exhibition "It was with me" opened in Moscow

The exhibition "It was with me" has opened at the Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow. The exhibition, where creativity is presented in dialogue with the past, brought together 10 artists who reinterpreted previously created works in modern conditions and shared new projects. This was reported on October 30 by a correspondent of Izvestia.

"Each of the artists had to enter into a dialogue with their own past, analyze projects made several years ago, and create new works based on them," said correspondent Kristina Morozova.

The exhibition is a creative experiment by completely different contemporary artists: some paint paintings, others take photographs, some work with video and sound. To take a fresh look at the events of the past days is the task set for the creators by the curator of the exhibition, Victor Misiano.

"The 10 authors of this exhibition saw modern art at the Winery for the first time, it passed through their entire lives. This is what the exhibition is about. About how a certain place influences people's creativity, and how people create this place. "It was with me" is my provocative question with the artist," Misiano said.

For the artist Ivan Novikov, the dialogue with the past has become especially personal. There is a collection of beads and decorative frogs on his stand. These are not just things, but artefacts of family history collected by the artist's parents, who recently died.

"When my parents visited my exhibitions, they kept something in memory, but not my work, which they did not really understand. And so I decided to create a structure that could become a place of memory, on the one hand, about my parents, and on the other hand, about this strange attitude of my parents to art," the artist said.

At the same time, the curator of the exhibition combined a variety of emotions in one space. Next to personal memory is a conversation about collective memory. Irina Korina created a cozy space from fragments of her old works.

"I sort of reassembled all these things, that is, they are not connected in their pure form, but a number of details have been changed on them, and such a cozy, in a sense, space with sofas and studios has been formed here. Something that is usually not always found at the exhibition, and I always miss it," said the participant of the exhibition.

The benches and tables of the makeshift city are made from improvised materials once found at the Winery. And the center of the installation is a catalog cabinet, the appearance of which is changed by the visitors themselves. Each exhibit is a complex and multi—layered story in which the visitor will find his mark and confidently say: "Yes, that was with me."

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