Yulia MOKROUSOVA, Olesya KOZLOVA
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DESIRE FOR A HOME
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«Their feet have grown into the
asphalt paving. Who will teach
them to smile, who will give them
back the desire for a home?».
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Young people give all their free time to the streets, and the streets force-feeds them their stereotypes.
Modern standards are clichés of the Western pop-culture, but they cannot explain the world…
The art of peasants, however, was concerned with description of the outworld.
The popular motives of folk embroidery are a cross (sun) and a wavy line (rain), systems of lozenges (ploughed soil), the Tree of Life itself,
as well as images of houses, people, domestic animals…
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Our exhibit is assembled of white and red cubes (red and white are basic colours in folk embroidery).
They form a fantastic construct that looks like the structure of embroidered canvas as seen through an electronic microscope.
The faces of the cubes bear various «street photos» (young people, yards, graffiti) — pictograms that imitate embroidery:
their pixels are akin to «pixels» of embroidery stitches. The objective of the project is to offer young people
a cultural alternative, to show them the richness and timeless relevance of native traditions: to give them back the desire for a home. |
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