Little bird sings about love and death

During the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Masters Bookstore, MYTH gallery and Passagewill present Alina Glazoun’s project. It consists of two parts: the first is represented by a small exhibition in the Masters Bookstore, the second – by a series of banners in the Passage.

The bookstore was chosen as a platform not by chance: one of the main vectors of Alina Glazoun’s artistic practice is the work with texts. The artist turns phrases found in newspapers into a ready-made, uses children’s magnetic alphabet and chips from the Scrabble. Getting into Alina’s objects and installations, words are free from their fixed meaning and begin to function as a Rorschach test in psychology.

From under the Passage arches, the viewer is challenged by bright banners. “Rrr-rr-rr?”- asks the tiger from a huge canvas. The form of a banner is usually used to manifest a particular position. Alina Glazoun’s slogans rather resemble vague Pythian predictions or poetic experiments of the dadaists.