Ekaterina Gerasimenko’s new project was conceived as a reflection on the everyday and the ordinary, i.e. the most boring.

We perceive our everyday life as white noise and inarticulate grey background, defocus, non-presence, existence or presence brought to automaticity.

We are trained to ignore breakdown in space as a factor that disrupts the monotony of everyday life. In opposition to this daily practice of ignoring, the artist brings focus to this breakage and the space from grey background and white noise becomes tangible, something to relate to, to be aware of, to feel, to measure and to change.

The technique of fine-tuning the viewer’s optics works both on the conceptual level and on the level of the works’ technique — the painting is present on the canvas in a minimal amount and fills a small part of the image, but it is the pictorial intervention that switches attention, becomes an event and thus organises the space, bringing us back to the reality of paint.

The sculptural group, included in the logic of the exposition, reinforces the narrative of automated actions and invisible objects with which these actions are performed. Being deprived of function and context, becoming unnecessary and irrelevant, they lead the viewer into the third space of everyday life, which can be re-appropriated and with this appropriation return to the city, realising itself here and now and having a connection with the urban environment through these objects and phenomena that were invisible before.

The works were created at The Vaults Centre for Artistic Production

curated by Yulia Grigorieva

photo: Sasha Overchuk

10.203 artist-run space

14.12-22.12’24