Exhibition 'In the Gaps of Ideology'

About exhibition

Striking and well-conceived Red Halls are a monument to late Soviet design thinking. Since the museum's founding (1987) they remained unchanged. In 2017 the halls were reconstructed. A new generation of designers used the resources laid down by Soviet architects. The spatial constructions created another dimension — in the resulting gaps, hollows and interstices it is not history but the individual that is revealed. Everything remains in its place but is altered and supplemented by material and artistic objects. On the surface of the old ideological exhibition, in documents and photographs, signs of an individual's inner world emerge. Ideas and images of philosophical, artistic and social practices of creating superhumans and a new world take root — a world where the utopia of the triumphant sun, the grinding conveyor of new labor, and a revolution that defeated death were proclaimed. Into the former narrative are introduced 'excluded' multiplicities, the opposite sides of the ideal world — themes of fratricidal civil war and Gulag repressions.