Dimitri Ozerkov
This installation by the well-known St. Petersburg duo – Plusch/Drozd – presents a poignant image of the new world, created using old means. The paintings have escaped from their frames or, on the contrary, have not yet had time to fit into them; objects have lost or have not yet acquired their contours; for the viewer the canvases appear to be imperfect and their qualities and meaning unstable and indecisive.
At the same time, there is nothing more beautiful than becoming, when forms have not yet been determined, and portraits in frames can acquire any features. They are shattered or have not yet come into being, they have no form, colour or subject matter. It turns out that beautiful, albeit familiar, things are meaningless as such. Unless, of course, some meanings are found outside the frame(s). It is namely there that they should be sought.
If this is destruction, then it is also the birth of a new object, a new world. When one disappears, another comes to replace it; moreover, the process of rebirth or transformation of one substance into another does not necessarily happen sequentially or step by step. Most often this process is harmonious: we simply do not perceive all its subtleties. Dreams, hopes and love are shattered by circumstances and the world is lost, it seems, the ground has disappeared from under our feet, but now everything is coming back again, and it turns out that destruction has led to new, no less fascinating, results.
