2016 Festival booklet / Буклет фестиваля

Public art
July 9 — August 7
Tv Shop
Authors
“Sever 7” art–group (Alexander Tsikarishvili, Nestor Engelke,
Peter Dyakov, Anna Andrzhievskaya) and Romain Pérignon
(France)
Place
“Bookvoed” book store, 23 Pestelya st.,
metro station “Chernyshevskaya”
The project is the contemporary video art intervention into the
space of the bookstore, designed to disrupt the everyday vanity
of the shopping area.
Advertising and relaxing views of wildlife often coexist.
The nature images, which fills unsold advertising spaces, has
acquired a property of reality simulation. Two videos presented
in “Bookvoed” store, are dedicated to the relationship between
man and nature, to the topic of destruction and peaceful coexistence.
The comic video “Warm arms” by the St. Petersburg art–
group “Sever 7” parodies TV shop: it offers useless items, such
as wooden weapon which cannot shoot.
Video “Lumberjacks” by French author Romain Pérignon
shows five fragments of an ordinary day of French woodcutter
and its five elements: forest, cold, fatigue, wood and fire. The
artist speaks of harmony with nature and at the same time of
its destruction by human, who enjoys and destroys it. Reflections
on the reckless trees felling are very relevant in the store,
crowded by bright paper products.
“Sever 7” is the St. Petersburg community of young artists. The
art–group operates in the field of public art. It founds the alternative
exhibition spaces and participates in various festivals
and biennales
Romain Pérignon is a young French video artist. He is
member of various video festivals and video art exhibitions in
France. His work “Lumberjacks” was presented during “Night of
Museums” project in 2016 in the Octave Cowell gallery in Metz
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