In her TUTU project the artist created a space featuring poetics of industrial materials like crushed stone, wooden railway sleepers, and petroleum tar. Alexandra makes the audience feel intense anticipation. For this, she conceptualizes the phenomenon of ‘no-place,’ which is a transitional zone where a person is a viewer, who doesn’t care about what he or she sees, and an observer, who is an object to be contemplated. Visitors of the museum who come to see TUTU installation find themselves in one of such transitional places. There is a railway embankment, a barren, rocky loose bank with a black dry well – a refuge for spirits, or a sticky dream-like placeless terrain.
‘Like Limbo described in the medieval theological works, this is a place of indefiniteness, a murky crossroad. A houseless space at the confluence of the human and the ghost worlds indicated by something that can be called a gate. It resembles torii – the traditional Zion gate that is usually installed to mark the borders of sacred lands,’ Alexandra Gart explained.
April 4 through June 30, 2024
ALEXANDRA GART’S INSTALLATION IN PERM
HER TUTU SOLO PROJECT CAN BE SEEN IN PERMM CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM TILL JUNE 30
May 20, 2024
