Exhibition

Zhenya Mironov. "Building metaphors"

Place

Gallery Erarta

29th line of Vasilievsky Island., 2

Category

Exhibition

Date

18 november 2021, 10:00 — 20 february 2022, 22:00

Price

от 600 rub

Events / Exhibition

The Erarta Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Zhenya Mironov, in which the collision of everyday subjects changes the logic of perception of reality.

At thirty-three, Zhenya Mironov is an established photographer. He is readily exhibited by leading Russian museums, and his work is a rethinking of the usual understanding of the art of photography. The series "Construction of Metaphors", presented in the Erarta Museum, has been created by the author for more than ten years - the number of works has already exceeded a hundred. In each work, two everyday plots, meeting, give rise to a metaphor - an image that radically changes the usual logic of perception of reality.

The photographer takes pictures in the vicinity of his native Tver. Mironov does not use the means of computer editing - he takes objects from the real environment as actors and turns them into heroes. Unexpected alignment of images creates conflict. The objects that Mironov combines in pairs are outwardly similar, but at the same time they are in no way connected with each other. “This is a dramatic and directorial move: the conflict at the junction is resolved in the viewer's head, and a third plan is born,” explains the photographer.

Building Metaphors is reminiscent of the intellectual game that Hermann Hesse described in The Glass Bead Game. Countless combinations of quotes and associations follow one another like beads on a string and cover different fields of art and science. The goal of the game is to discover the deep laws and relationships of all things. A snail and a round staircase are Fibonacci numbers, birds on wires and thorns are elements of a rhythmic pattern that can be reproduced, a birch and a leaf are fractals, and so on ad infinitum. Visual puzzles make us wiggle and invite us to co-create. This, according to the author, is his task: to give the viewer freedom to get out of the trap of his own experience, to get out of the matrix.