I noticed that people tend to store things without an explicitly set goal. It seems to derive from the automatic assumption of their possible need in the future. From recipes for dishes that will never be cooked, to everyday little things like nails and screws, which usually just replenish in their quantity. Gathering is like mechanical gestures of everyday life that we reproduce in a search of support within the general anxiety of existence.
Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, 2023
Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, 2023
Sculpture, 2023
Photo Alexandra Ptitca
The effort to carefully preserve items "just in case" — like a mantra, turns into a hymn to everyday life.
I found such an unconscious stock in my life too: all kinds of buttons cut from new things that have been hoarding for years — just in case. Having already lost their history, freed from their function, they have become a set of objects that illustrate this ubiquitous, unrevealed anxiety.
The sculpture is a kind of monument to objects and supposed actions that have turned from a necessity into an unaccounted and senseless excess.
The sculpture is a kind of monument to objects and supposed actions that have turned from a necessity into an unaccounted and senseless excess.
Fiberboard, glass cube, button, hammer, all the thing in case of emergency, 120×30×30 cm
Angst button
Photo Hanna Zubkova
