summ( )n

The reason for my trip to Moscow was an understandable desire to be present at the opening of my own exhibition – One Map, Two Routs, hosted by the Museum of Architecture. I managed to miss its first incarnation in Perm last year, and decided not to step on the same harp twice.

The exhibition, opened by Marat Guelman, head of the Permm Museum of Contemporary Art and Olga Sviblova, head of the Moscow Institute of Photography, was a part of the 8th Moscow Photobiennale, together with some 30+ other galleries and events all around the city (both on the picture above). Somebody even managed to capture my own self, a rare breed.

I came a bit early to the exhibition, way before its official opening, and captured quite a strange situation of the images without the viewers. It is very difficult to imagine such a non-dialogical, non-communicative situation for the aman_geld project, which always existed in a social web space and became a social object already long ago.

Then came the visitors, the media, the critics etc; in fact, tons of them, at the end the halls were entirely packed. But the main reason why this posting is here is not a bit of selfish boasting. For me aman_geld is a logical, and complimentary extension to the work of Summ()n, namely, discovering new ways of thinking and seeing the usual and routine things ‘differently’. You can start with images, you can start with sounds, or meaning, or futures; here and again the question is how many diverse views we can produce, and process, and explore. Same question, just different formats.