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Gifts. Play Modules
postcards, 10 x 15 cm
series of 250
2014/2016
ed. of 10,
courtesy of the artist
ph Chloé Pernet, Katya Ev
images (c) Katya Ev
This edition takes its origin in the research around Moscow yellow-n-green urban fences, it is accompanied by a related photographic series.
« For several years now, Katya Ev has been documenting the urban vocabulary of Moscow's barriers, taking detailed shots that show the diversity of forms employed. Such images are transformed into tourist postcards presented on a classic rack, even though these elements are considered uninteresting. From being documentary and functional, these photographs underwent an aestheticization due to their new mode of display. In the tradition of the postcards used by Marcel Broodthaers and Philippe Thomas, they reflect the primacy given to the dissemination of the work, but in a fully ironic mode, as this outdated means of correspondence is on the way to becoming an archaeology." .Fabien Danesi, Etat d'Exception, Galerie Dix9, Paris (Fr), 2018
Bibliography:
2016 cat. Là où nous sommes. Regards d’artistes sur l’anthropocène, Paris (Fr)
2014 cat. Beauty of disgraceful, Art Center Belyaevo, Moscow (Ru)
2014 Moscow 24, "Beauty of disgraceful", TV broadcasting (Ru)
Exhibitions:
2021 Orangerie, Het Paviljoen - KASK Curatorial Studies, Ghent (Be)
2019 Architectures Intérieures, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Val-de-Seine, Paris (Fr)
2018 Etat d'Exception, solo exhibition, Galerie Dix9, Paris (Fr)
2017 Correspondances / Vasistas / Le regard à travers la fenêtre / Il se passe quelque chose entre nous, Galerie Mansart, Paris (Fr)
2016 Là où nous sommes. Regards d’artistes sur l’anthropocène, espace Jussieu, Paris (Fr)
2014 Beauty of disgraceful, Art Center Belyaevo, Moscow (Ru), 2014
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