Living Space | Живой Уголок

Livng Space, multimedia installation, 2020
Metal, glass, plants, water, soil, silicon, sound, playtronica devices
Dimensions variable

Cosmoscow Art Fair, Ruinart Art Patronat winner, 2020

This year’s Ruinart Art Patronat grant winner is Margo Trushina represented here with her new project Living Corner which continues her exploration of mankind’s place in the environment from the viewpoint of modern ecological discourse and the philosophy of posthumanism. The project acts as a metaphor for the current state of the world, characterized by radical climate change, where the exploration of our chaotic and unstable time prompts the artist and viewers to reconsider their relationship with the world around them.

The Living Corner project is an interactive installation made of natural and artificial materials such as plants, soil, metal, water, glass, ceramic and silicone objects, as well as sound and light. The viewers are invited to interact with objects as well as and with plants. Either suspended or placed on the floor and shelves that form a construction of the project, each hybrid sculpture has its own sound or voice which can be activated by the touch or movement. The soundscape for the installation made of field recordings (sounds recorded with special devices in nature) is created together with the Playtronica Laboratory, a collective of artists who use a combination of sound, touch and technology to study human and interspecies relationships.