Katya Ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)

Images 1 - 2: based on live performance Iceberg-18010813. Blue Room

image 3: view of the exhibition Etat d'Exception, Galerie Dix9, Paris (Fr), 2018

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This lightbox shows the “situation constructed” by Katya Ev in Moscow in January 2018, for which they placed an advert on the private-to-private site offering a “space to realize your political choice”. After making contact exclusively by SMS, people were invited to go individually to an address where he found access to a room without having met any individual. During their stay in this space people could choose between taking a sleeping pill or surfing the dark web, like a dialectical alternative between falling asleep and awakening consciousness in a post-situationist tradition. The photograph emphasizes the blue color that floods the empty room where everyone is led to find themselves alone. This color evokes an underwater, artificial, digital world, an asphyxiating, hallucinogenic world, where paranoid self-control meets the possibility of unleashing one's impulses in a kind of radical indeterminacy. Fabien Danesi,  Etat d'Exception, Galerie Dix9, Paris (Fr), 2018