Center of the Universe
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Center of the Universe

interactive installation
telephone | papier-mache | video projector | microPC
2016
Exhibitions

«Glory» / Galerie Charlot 2016

Sinara-Art Gallery (Russia) 2021

A vintage pushbutton telephone serves as the gateway for the visitor to have, for a moment, the attention of the cosmos.  A starry field, slowly revolving, is projected on the wall behind the telephone. When the visitor picks up the receiver they are prompted to share a personal tidbit.  This causes a new star to be born and all the other heavenly bodies to circle around it, like a charmed audience.  For a brief, fragile moment the new star is seated at the center of creation.  But it is easily displaced by the next visitor: the centrality is ultimately an illusion.

2023 / Installation
Digital Swamp
2021 / bas-relief triptych
Fingerprints
For those who have touched me.
2016 / interactive installation
Center of the Universe
Each of us is at the center of our own life, but when the universe
is infinite does it matter?
2017 / interactive installation
Russian Voodoo
What will you do when you hold a life in your hands?
Cruelty that’s casual is the most disturbing of all.
2016 / light installation
Lonely Planet
The dark side of the light
2021 / multimedia installation
French Spirit
A nation past its prime, dulled by wine, still trying to stay together.
2012 / interactive installation
Root
Each life coalesces in layers and has a story to be told if you can find it.
We make our own memories, ring by ring, until the day comes when we,
too, are uprooted.
2012 / projection-mapping
Back to Black
A playground of patterns, cycling through infinity, that needs one human
element among its geometric ones.
2015 / video sculpture
100 Pieces
It’s not too difficult to generate the generic: just follow the recipe,
sprinkle a bit of this or that, and you can cook up whatever
you want.
2008 / interactive installation
Memo
Russia, 1939. A state run by terror. A population in despair.
But even in darkness threads of light are visible, in paper and ink.
2015 / videosculpture
Towers
A cycle of construction and deconstruction, repeating ad infinitum,
that produces towers like melodies in a set of musical variations.
2013 / interactive relief sculpture
Final Journey
With a single touch comes release—slip through the final border and unburden yourself forever.
2012 / interactive installation
Masturbator
A voyeur’s fantasy shimmers into view, but to be a witness here you must also be a culprit.
A true hands-on experience…
2010 / video
War and Peace 360
Never-before-seen footage of an epic, visualized and shot by Tolstoy himself!!!
2013 / video-mapping
Chicken²
No fowl play here… just a little rustic charm pecking in the urban grit.
2016 / Interactive installation
Survival of the Fittest
Just because you climb the corporate ladder from the inside,
instead of scaling the walls from without, doesn’t mean
you’re any less of a beast.
2015 / videosculpture
Cycle of Revenge
Push past silent comfort zones and playfulness unravels into cruelty.
Payback takes on a life of its own, ceaselessly feeding upon itself.
2016 / interactive installation
Glory
An on-demand audience you can wear any time.