Authentication

2006-2008

Authentication

“Authentication is a security check-up allowing to access information. In my interpretation it is a broader notion that is comprised of a string of performative actions. In other words, authentication as a check of authenticity is inseparably and tightly linked to the rituals which resemble and mystify the sacrament of initiation.”

The compositional structure of the installation part of Authentication is organized scenically, theatrically, provoking the viewer’s interactive response. The character of the location and the distribution of the objects enlist time, movement and mystery as instruments of influence. The keeping of time is initiated by walking, movement, which is necessary to do in order to at least take a look at the exhibit and thus to approach mystery. Olesya Avramenko

Somnambules, ghosts, toy soldiers, mannequins? Or, perhaps, heroes of all myths at once? Odysseus dreaming of returning to Ithaca? Orpheus forbidden to look back? Blind Oedipus coming to Colonus to die? Or a newborn hero? A baby who will drag along for a moment, as an umbilical cord, all this weight of the past - is made apparent in army cargo pants. Largely athletic, as ancient Greek athletes, these heroes are just as calm and even alienated from the world. Frozen, as if in a protracted jump, they defy all the earth’s laws - standing and moving simultaneously, between past and future, that is, today. Oleksandr Klekovkin