Anna Nova Gallery and New Holland present the project 'Fedor Hiroshige's Lecture Hall' — a space for concentration, where you can find answers to deep questions and enter into a dialogue with your inner self.
Special for New Holland, Fedor Hiroshige creates an exclusive lecture hall that's built into the Pavilion building, where lectures and other educational events are usually held. According to the artist, the educational process and spiritual practice are quite similar to each other. 'In both cases, the method of repetition becomes the basis of the basics,' says the artist. 'To train your mind, you need to do different exercises, but in the case of spiritual practice, we may be training something else.' In this 'Lecture Hall' Hiroshige recreates the spirit of the school class where the memorization of texts from anime openings, fragments of Buddhist treatises and Tibetan mantras becomes part of the curriculum.
In this sacred space, you can meditate upon the image of Sailor Moon, clear your thoughts in a salt sandbox and take notes of a silent lecture of wooden desks soaked in audio materials that the artist listened to during the creation process — from pop music to psychoanalysis lectures and Mozart symphonies. These mind simulators set up and encourage the viewer to concentrate in order to inform — the answers to all questions are already there. You just need to focus and discover them.
'Fedor Hiroshige's Lecture Hall' goes beyond the boundaries of the Pavilion, making an intervention into the urban living room 'Community' in the 'House 12' on New Holland island. Through artistic intrusion into public spaces, Hiroshige explores the state of affect, shatters the routine and suggests questioning the usual understanding of reality. Some of the works were presented at Fedor Hiroshige's project 'Glitter in the Red Night', shown at the exhibition 'Experimental Unit 13 16 45' in the Narkomfin building in Moscow this year.
New Holland, Pavilion. Free entry. Daily from 12:00 to 20:00.