TREES IN THE GOLITSYN MANOR SQUARE
Site-specific audio-video installation
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / 2016
The installation is for the exhibition House of Impressions. Classic and Contemporary Media Art at the Prince Golitsyn Family Estate, former Institute of Philosophy of the RAS, that will become the Museum of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Among the books and documents left by the Institute of Philosophy a floppy with a sign RFH Contest 2006 North Tales N.E. Onchukov was found. It became a starting point of the installation.
The mise en scène is initially frozen in space but comes to life when the viewer takes one of the three observation points for the visual images and listens to the sound. Views from the three windows are reflected in the mirror-frames as an unfixed, constantly vibrating and changing reality. As we observe it in the reflections, we see another visual flow — archival and personal video footage; the succession of frames is connected to the ternary sound narrative immersing us in the forgotten world of Old Russian tales.
Going from chair to chair, the viewer becomes an observer in whose consciousness unique assemblage of impressions takes place.