The project at the Ruarts Foundation is a personal exhibition by a contemporary Moscow artist working under the pseudonym Katerina Seryoznaya. Four iconic works from this project are displayed in the Foundation’s space.
The exhibition addresses the phenomenon of «Russianness.» It is important for the artist, from the perspective of both a native and an observer, to explore the nature of national identity and trace the essence of cultural phenomena capable of connecting the past with the future.
Alphabet
A series of glass objects that unite the expressive power of word and image—an exploration of the primary concepts of the Russian consciousness. Using optical refractions, Katerina Seryoznaya creates visual illusions and dialectical concepts of Russian identity. The selected set of words is composed based on meaning, and at the level of opposition, identity, and comparison, it reveals the coordinate system of our worldview.
Melancholy
In the volumetric composition
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Monochromatic graphic objects of the
The formatting of the titles under the tag is a reference to digitality, since that is how code is written in programming languages. Katerina Seryoznaya skillfully weaves together the aesthetics of an operating system lacking emotional depth and the practice of visualizing sensory states—contemplation, perpetual reflection in the search for answers to the fundamental questions of existence. as is.