TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
CHOICE
(EUROPE-ASIA)
Photo action
2006
“The Choice” project. XI Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives 2006 Moscow State Exhibition Hall Novy Manege
Photo 100x300
To bolsheviks of desert and spring
V.Lugovskoy
Sent in a crevice between Europe and Asia, the scouts.
Choice is global, geopolitical and geomantic.
Border is choice.
Border is a point of choice.
Bridge across the Ural – Orsk city – the border between Europe and Asia.
Border is an imagined line, zero space.
Here the abundance of man is almost absolute.
Position of the border between the worlds, geo-cultural complex is pure existential choice.
Impossibility to be anywhere.
Unbearable position of spatial, cultural, political and moral absence.
Drama of internal choice is played here.
It is a human comedy. Dual faced Janus. Man and woman.
Facing East.
Facing West.
Facing the world.
Face to face.