The new project of the artist Marina Zvyagintseva “Attraction” starts on September 5

Sep. 03, 2020

On the Day of the City of Moscow, September 5, an art object “Attraction” by artist Marina Zvyagintseva will be installed on the Tsaritsyno Dam between the Upper and Middle ponds. This is the second site specific project held jointly with Tsaritsyno Museum and a part of the Locked Feelings project which calls for thinking about human relationships.

Two three-meter chairs opposite each other invite mother and daughter, man and woman, old man and son, brother and sister, two friends – anyone who needs a living word and look. The chairs are not next to each other; a dam separates them. This is a metaphor for forced disunity, the need to maintain a distance. But the force of attraction and the need for each other are so high that the distance is overcome. By “little steps”, pieces of puzzles, a “bridge” is built, the lost connection is restored.

In 2019, on the Upper pond of Tsaritsyno, the installation “Exit” was drifting – a raft with a door, which illustrated the search for a way out of a difficult situation. But if “Exit” is a story about loneliness, then “Attraction” is about the value of relationships between people who are forced to keep their distance during a pandemic.

The art object will be located in the park from September 5 to November 6. The artist’s team is going to hold several performances during this period.

Marina Zvyagintseva is one of the founders of public art in Russia and the largest site specific artist in the country. Marina’s calling card is the performative technique of biotyping, which the artist uses in media art, 3D objects and art installations of large and small forms.

Marina is a nominee of the INNOVATION All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art, the ARCHIWOOD Prize, twice a nominee for the Kandinsky Prize and the Kuryokhin Prize. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, the Moscow Union of Artists and the Board of Trustees of the State Budgetary Healthcare Institution “Morozovskaya DGKB DZM”. Marina’s large-scale art objects are installed in the courtyards of the Higher School of Economics in Khitrovsky Lane, in the Fabrika CTI, in the Morozov Children’s Hospital, the Polytechnic Museum, the ARTPLAY Design Center, the Skolkovo Research Center, as well as on the facades of the public library in Norilsk, on the facade of TIAM in Tula and the facade of the author’s school of Sergei Kazarnovsky “Class-Center” in Moscow.

You can find out more about Marina’s work on her website https://artmarin.ru/ or on Instagram @artmarinzv.