LOVE
FROM & TO
From May 14 to November 14, 2024, the First Model Printing House hosted the total installation "LOVE. From and To". The PRANNA concept bureau presented a new project, in which curator Anna Malay brought together more than 20 authors to create a total installation, the journey inside which brings the viewer closer to the answer to the question "What is love?".
The first to visit the exhibition were Konstantin Andrikopoulos, Aurora, Liza Aminova, Tatyana Gevorkyan, Renata Piotrovsky, Ekaterina Selivanova, Alina Shpak, Georgy Rushev, Karina Nigay, Dmitry Boldin and others. Thirteen rooms-episodes are divided into two parts: "Cognition" ("Mom, I'm here!", "Home", "School", "Boudoir", "Soul", "Trauma", "Ghosts") and "Healing" ("Immortality", "Kiss on the lips", "Chronicle", "Light", "Awakening", "There are no empty seats in the waiting room").
Together they form a unique path from birth to the moment of "here and now". Installations created by artists involve interaction with the viewer, where everyone can get a unique experience of living love through memories and anticipation of the future.
The rooms-episodes are not just an artistic interpretation of one or another side of "love". Getting into them, the viewer becomes a full-fledged participant in the research process. For example, in the "Home" room by Eldar Ganeev, which takes us back to childhood, you can visit a secret place under the stairs or climb into a hut made of blankets. Oksana Afanasyeva (School) recalls the thrilling experiences of first love on her ceramic diary pages and invites everyone to write down their story of first feelings on paper. In the episode “Kiss on the Lips” by Masha Somik, you can climb onto a large pink pedestal, lie down on the flower platforms and listen to the artist’s meditation. The exhibition ends with the room “There are no empty seats in the waiting room” – through the final point of the journey through time, together with Pranna, viewers will experience love through engaging practices. Here you can leave a message or confession, hug the person next to you or be hugged.
The visitors of the total installation are accompanied by protagonists in white suits – the characters of Pranna. According to the author of the project, “these are people from the future who came to our time and ended up here to become guides to understanding love.”
Artists participating in the exhibition “Love. From and To»: Oksana Afanasyeva, Lyudmila Baronina, Ksenia Balabukh, Eldar Ganeev, Elina Gusarova, Anna Kass, Katarina Love, Si Lo, Daria Ryzhkova, Masha Somik, Serafima S, Kristina Sidorova, Vera Shirdina, Ustina Yakovleva, Karman Verdi, Linda de La, Farangiz Ra, Pranna. Curator of the exhibition «Love. From and To»: Anna Malai
The first to visit the exhibition were Konstantin Andrikopoulos, Aurora, Liza Aminova, Tatyana Gevorkyan, Renata Piotrovsky, Ekaterina Selivanova, Alina Shpak, Georgy Rushev, Karina Nigay, Dmitry Boldin and others. Thirteen rooms-episodes are divided into two parts: "Cognition" ("Mom, I'm here!", "Home", "School", "Boudoir", "Soul", "Trauma", "Ghosts") and "Healing" ("Immortality", "Kiss on the lips", "Chronicle", "Light", "Awakening", "There are no empty seats in the waiting room").