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”
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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 Victoria Ilyushkina is a media artist and curator. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, where she studied art history and theory, holds a degree from the New Media program of the Pro Arte Institute. Currently she is the program curator of the CYLAND Video Archive and International Cyfest video programs. Curator of the project “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.
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”, “Sleepless Art Night” 2025 (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Cyfest 13 at The Hermitage Youth Education Center, Anna Akhmatova Museum, Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand 2020 (France), Cyfest 14 Dartington (UK), Gyumri Art Week (Armenia); including solo shows Al Gallery 2014 (St-Petersburg); Gallery Pfeister (Gudhjem, Denmark) 2012, Iragi Gallery 2009, Gislaved Kunsthalle 2014 (Sweden), etc.
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”.
