Screening Sculptures exhibition

Ania Sokolova

LADIES DRAWING CLÜB Founder, independent curator and creative director from St-Petersburg, Russia

In the spring, Georgia and I conceived an exhibition that served to create a new format for the presentation of art, in a sense, beyond the laws of borders and quarantines. The development of the concept began with a discussion of social networks, namely Instagram, in which we look for virtual visuals, follow the news, get inspired, and more importantly, how we actually interact with information. On the one hand, society is already tired of online and social media, on the other hand, we can no longer imagine another life. LADIES DRAWING CLÜB also interacts with its audience primarily through the glass of the phone screen and this form of interaction served as a kind of starting point. For me, as a curator of the LDC, when creating an exhibition and selecting works for it, it is significant to see not only the best works of artists, but also their inner history/kitchen. Today, I'm less looking for art itself and more looking for its heroes. Those who do not create objects, although I am an absolute connoisseur of craft and traditions, but new independent movements, which first of all make us look wider and change our usual views, deny familiarity as such. Screening Sculptures for me is a kind of multi-layered story about social online reality and the emergence of art in it, which can argue with any reality types.