Description: This ironic video novella is about young lady in the bathroom of a communal apartment in St. Petersburg city. We cannot separate her dreams and memories from the reality.
The work is made ina creative tandem with Mayya Popova who plays the lead role and performs the acrobatic solo in the bathroom. The male roles are improvised by students of the German Film Academy. The artist was interested in a performing component of the project and its transformation through editing.
“Through movement, through dance hidden meanings are communicated, the ones that are difficult to articulate by words or in a text. They are stored in the subconsciousness and may be seen and guessed at, deciphered, yet not fully… About fleeting, about feelings. About sensual. Movement turning into a visible contour of a sign. Sound making movement unreal”
Videostills:
Exhbited:
2016 Media festival, Dom Kino, Krasnoyarsk
2016 Doppelganger – video work at the exhibition “My Own Self. Self-Portrait in the Russian Museum”, The State Russian Museum, St-Petersburg
2015-2016 “News from Ludwig Collection” State Russian Museum, Marable Palace, St-Petersburg
2015 Maneken – video work at “Urbi et Orbi” exhibition, the 6th Moscow Biennale Special Project, Museum Center of RGGU, Moscow
2015 “On My Way” Parallel to the 56th International Art Exhibition, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Venice, Italy
2014 “Now and After” festival program screening, Madrid
2014 “Another capital”- exhibition NCCA St-Peterburg brunch, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
Vika Ilyushkina Born in 1971 in Leningrad, USSR.
Victoria Ilyushkina is a media artist and curator. She graduated from the Academy of Arts Russian in Saint Petersburg, where she studied art history and theory, hold a degree New Media program of the Pro Arte Institute.
Currently she is the program curator of the CYLAND Video Archive and International Cyfest video programs.
As an artist, she presented her video works at numerous solo and group exhibitions such as On My Way parallel project to the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Manifesta 10 Parallel Program “The Other Home”, at The State Russian Museum, at The Hermitage Youth Education Center, “Russia contemporary exhibition” Galerie Gmurzynska (Switzerland), Anna Akhmatova Museum, Al Gallery in St. Petersburg, Russia; Iragi Gallery (Moscow), Gislaved Kunsthalle (Sweden) etc.
Artist and curator with a diploma in Art History and Theory of the Academy of Fine Arts and in New Media Programs from the Pro Arte Institute; St. Petersburg, Russia. 2009-2022 curated Videoforma International Video Art Festival at the Sergey Kuryokhin Art Centre, St. Petersburg. In 2023 Co-curator Gyumri Art Week, Republic of Armenia. She was part of the jury in several international film and video festivals.
She is currently the program curator of the CYLAND Video Archive and International Cyfest video programs. Featured screenings at the Made in New York Media Center, USA; at Platoon Kunsthalle in Berlin, The Short Film Festival Oberhausen-66, Germany; Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France; Empire Projects, Istanbul; programming at the parallel events at Venice Biennale; Youth Education Center of Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg; video festivals in Sweden, Poland, at SOFA festival in Bogota, Colombia; in Brazil; Dartington, UK; NPAK Contemporary Art Center, ICA Institute for contemporary Art Foundation, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia and more.
Her curatorial research interests are aimed at studying the mutual influence and transition from analogue media in film and video art to digital media and its further transformation with using 3D and AI technologies in time-based art. She curated numerous of video exhibitions and projects among them Video /Text/ Art; Screens; “Seeking for the keys” Andrey Krisanov artist and musician. Curator of the project and author of the introduction article “A History of the Development of Media Art in Leningrad — Saint Petersburg, 1985-2000”, 2021. Author of the publication “Aspects of the digital fermentation of moving images” in Leonardo journal V55/6, 2022.
I try to transfer the subconscious into day-to-day life through the plasticity of motion, to reveal the hidden psychological processes. Dance and teamwork with the choreographer has become a fundamental element of my work. In my films I address modern dance including it into daily environments as a contrasting element.
Maya Popova Maya Popova is a choreographer and a dancer; in 2001-2014, she taught Contemporary Dance at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
In 1999, she graduated from the Department of Ballet Production at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. She is a prize and award recipi¬ent of the competitions “Muses of St. Petersburg”, 1998; Competition of Young Choreographers “Vaganova-Prix”, 1998; the F. Lopukhov Competition of Young Choreographers as part of “the Visit” Festival (Saint-Petersburg, 1999). As a choreographer, she participated in staging of shows and projects at drama and music theaters in St. Petersburg: “Buff” Theater, “Children's Through the Looking Glass” Theater, “Music Hall” Theater, “Theater-Festival Baltic House”. As a dancer and a choreographer, she presented her works at the festivals of contempo¬rary dance “IFMC”, “Open Look”, “Choreografien von Frauen Dance” Festival, “Word and Body”, program “AA” of “the Alternative” Festival and “OKNO”.
