Exhibition "Industrial Dreams"

The CK19 Cultural Center presents an exhibition of young Novosibirsk artists, "Industrial Dreams." The halls feature more than 100 diverse works.

The exhibition is built on the synergy of approaches and viewpoints of several distinctive authors whose creativity decomposes and refracts the concept of "the city." The exhibition is eclectic in its emulation of contemporary urban space and offers the viewer a journey through different levels and reflections of the urban world, akin to a dreamlike trip or wanderings through a mirrored labyrinth. Here the serious becomes ironic, the static becomes plastic, the sensual becomes formalized.

"The city is not only physical infrastructure; it is an ecosystem with its own psychic background and a complex composition of space, filled with textures, feelings and affects," says curator and participant Vlad Randomartin. "The city, as a source of myth, is a repository of the unconscious, a metronome for human hearts and a conduit of aesthetics. A person living in the city sooner or later becomes part of its system — physical and mental."

"Novosibirsk is growing very fast. 100 years ago it was a small village, and today it is one of the largest metropolises in Russia. Our city is developing so rapidly that many moments of its history and growth remain unrecorded. That's why I take photos, preserving Novosibirsk as I see it today, so that in 100 or 200 years, when the city becomes completely different, one can see its path," shares exhibition participant, photographer Evgeny Bruskov.

What is an industrial dream, the city's unconscious? Lost in the labyrinths of glass and concrete, we can dance to the music of architecture and traverse the expanses of social networks, swapping endless avatars, sprout like a tree through granite and apprehend the whole world through details. We only need to stop thinking that a metropolis is merely a complex of service facilities, because it's much more complicated than that.

The exhibition will open on 29 August and will run until 29 September 2024.