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Overcoming alienation.
Curated by Ekaterina Lazareva (Russia) |
The art projects of the Russian artists in this exhibition demonstrate
a very wide interpretation of the Biennale themes. The clue for the
understanding of these projects, from my point of view, may be the
concept of ‘alienation’ and the attempt to overcome it.
Alienation is quite a general concept striking roots in philosophy,
sociology, psychology, and economics. Though it probably has the most
important place in the labor philosophy of Marx. Moreover alienation
is the permanent state for most people in industrial as well as post-industrial
society. In the 1990s capitalism conquered even in the reserve for
experiment (the U.S.S.R.), where the utopian construction of communist
society was supposed to end alienation forever. But does this mean
that capitalism is the inevitable mode of relations in which most
of people are destined to live with more or less comfort in the 21st
century?
Artists:
ESCAPE
PROGRAM, (Valeriy Ayzenberg, Bogdan Mamonov, Anton Litvin, Liza
Morozova)
Anton Litvin
Elena Kovylina
Maxim Ilyukhin
Liza Morozova
Georgy Pervov
Andrey Ustinov
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