Haim Sokol. "Transformation as a form of resistance"

Anna Nova Gallery and the Third Place cultural space present Chaim Sokol's personal project Transformation as a Form of Resistance. The exhibition will open simultaneously on two sites: in the gallery itself and in the old mansion of the Lopukhins-Naryshkins, which houses the Third Place space.

The project is dedicated to transmutations and borderline states - between human and animal, female and male, animate and inanimate, domestic and creepy, past and present. The exhibitions will feature paintings, installations, videos and graphics. In his new paintings, Haim Sokol uses various materials - from floor rags to carpets and mattresses, including them in the game of metamorphosis. Fabrics become banners with mysterious heraldry, and carpets become a magical forest in which birds, people and animals live.

Haim Sokol in his work, he addresses the topic of alienation, isolation and broken ties in the modern world. His personal projects were presented at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Stella Art Foundation, etc. The artist took part in the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (2009), Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009), Mediations biennale in Poland (2010), Indian Biennale of Visual Art in Kochi-Muzuris (2012), Kiev Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015). Winner of the Companion Prize (2009). Included in the Russian investment art rating 49ART, which represents outstanding contemporary artists under the age of 50.

Works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, the National Center for Contemporary Art, the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, the Stella Art Foundation, the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, as well as in private and foreign collections.

The exhibition in "Third Place" runs until November 1.