MADE IN CYLAND

Most of daily visual and aural paradoxes pass unnoticed by a human being; they are perceived as a given, as a part of the routine reality. This video installation, based on a play of chiaroscuro and optical illusions on a moving train, invites the viewer to recall the genre of trompe l’oeil, so popular in the Russian art of XVII and XVIII centuries and defined by Yuri Lotman as “…a game on the edge that calls for a sophisticated semiotic sense and testifies to complex dynamic processes that, as a rule, develop at the periphery of art before they capture its central spheres. It is, in fact, the imitation of authenticity that turns a notion of conditionality into a conscious issue whose boundaries and measure are detected by both an artist and his audience”.