On November 28th the opening of the “Stranger Stories” exhibition happens

On November 28th the opening of the group exhibition “Stranger Stories” happens (curator Lizaveta Matveeva). 

The project brings together artists who work with personal mythologies, or more precisely, with a fairytale narrative. We live in a post-truth world where emotions and fantasy are substituted for facts, and mainstream news feeds us a daily dose of other people’s painful delusions. Originally used as a guidepost for growing up, fairy tales have now become a form of self-identification and a reaction to reality.

Fairy tales once performed an educational and edifying function in promoting the ideas of justice and a better life — a social utopia. But what should such tales teach today? And should they teach at all? What are the problems to be solved in fairy tales, and which kind of fairytale heroes should solve them? What is the social utopia of the post-truth era?

Project’s curator: Lizaveta Matveeva

Partisipants: Anna Afonina, Antonina Baever, Andrey Bartenev, Galya Fadeeva, Greht, Katya Lyubavskaya, Dima Makonda, Vova Perkin, Ulyana Podkorytova, Sergey Savelyev

Poster: Sergey Savelyev