We Will, a group show curated by Plague, at The High of Culture, Krasnodar, Russia

Looking at feet walking
I am in the field
Going through darkness
Silence is around
Grasshoppers’ sound
I know
We’ve been walking for a long time
But I am all alone in the field
Where am I going from?
I don’t remember
Where am I going to?
I don’t know
Who am I?
I keep asking myself
Where are we going?
I don’t know.

— Arthur Golyakov, 2019

28.6.19 — 26.7.19

Pasha Bezor, Nastya Vasileva, Arthur Golyakov, Vladimir Omutov, Stas Tocka, Vanya Venmer.

Photo by: Angelina Venmer

The High of Culture

On the 5th of September of the 18th year the Shukhov Tower in the center of Krasnodar was captured and transformed into a gallery.

“ … At the same time, the official media, which, by the way, is still considered to be very liberal by the standards of our Cossack region, two officials comment on the exhibition on the tower. Both the head of the state protection of the cultural heritage of the region and the press service of the shopping mall come to the conclusion that an unauthorized gallery on an architectural monument does not contradict either laws or business interests. It would seem that the city is a layer of various conflicts. And here in the center of these intersections suddenly the place which as if is nobody’s is found out. Empty and secluded. A fragment of Soviet modernism, the top of which is hidden from view by long unused billboards.”