BOTH ARE WHITE (2023)
Exhibition «Both White»
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023/ Exibition entry
The exhibition «Both White» is a complex chronological statement. The name of the project refers to a famous psychological experiment in the USSR in the 70s, in which subjects were asked to name the color of a pyramid. Four people were co-participants in the experiment and only one was the subject of the experiment. All participants were shown two pyramids — black and white. The first four people said that both pyramids were white and the person on whom the experiment was carried out also repeated after them that «Both pyramids are white,» despite the fact that there were a white and a black pyramid in front of him.
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023/ Two pyramids
This situation is similar to how people in Russia today have difficulty speaking publicly about what they really think due to fear, censorship and repression.
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
As a result, double consciousness is formed when people in public say what is expected of them, but in private — in the kitchen — they say what they really think about. Today, many are afraid to say: «No to war,» and many publicly support war, although in fact they are categorically against it.
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
Starting point
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023/ Works from the exibition «Manifestation» (2014)
The first starting point of the exhibition comes from the works shown in 2014 at the exhibition «Manifestation», where the author pointed out hidden political and social processes that would have to manifest themselves in the future (the plots of protests and uprisings of the Orange revolutions, protests in Ukraine).
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023/ Works from the exibition «Manifestation» (2014)
The second part of the exhibition
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
As a continuation of this series, the artist specially created new works (drawings made of burnt paper in epoxy resin, using Soviet wallpaper from the 60s), as evidence of the fulfilled curse/prophecy.
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
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Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
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Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
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Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
The third part
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
The third is the deconstruction/destruction of exhibition galleries in order to «destroy the facade» and expose the historical walls, on the «wounds» of which to place «white» works (made by scratching soil from the canvas — the fourth part of the exhibition) as evidence of a new world.
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
Vladimir Potapov/ BOTH ARE WHITE/ 2023
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The final part
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The fourth part is work on testing visual acuity as an attempt to return the surrounding reality to itself, to make it identical to itself.
