The Notion of “reverse perspective” today can seem highly arbitrary, since it is connected, broadly speaking, only with the aspects of construction of space in Old Russian and Byzantine icons. At the same time, this aspect reflects upon the special way in which Russia and its culture has been understood for centuries. The peculiarity of this way is hardly arguable: it is characterized by extraordinary metaphysical breakthrough as well as the enormous humanistic failure. Whether a metaphor of “reverse perspective” can embody this “special way”, to which the fatherland adheres for ages? Whether a conflict of “linear” and “reverse perspective” in our time can be understood as migrating from aesthetic to societal? These and other issues trouble the contemporary artists gathered in the starting project of Sergey Popov at the new pop/off/art gallery space at Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art.

Artists: Evgeny Gorokhovsky, Nikolay Kasatkin, Gleb Kosorukov, Andrey Krasulin, Sergey Ogurtsov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Gor Chahal, Olga Chernysheva, Kirill Chelushkin.

Curator: Sergey Popov