The Circumstances of Insurmountable Time project by Evgeny Granilshchikov transforms GUM-Red-Line Gallery into a space for studying flashbacks and a syncopation of an epoch, allowing us to draw a timeline from the 1980s to our days. The exposition is presented as a unified installation consisting of two parts: the first part uses photo and graphics to get its points across; for the second part, the artist decided to create a film theater with three screens. Evgeny Granilshchikov develops the themes of regression, cyclicity, open-ended time, permanent fear in the new series of graphics Touches (2020), as well as the photographic series Untitled (Re-enactment) (2020), and Untitled (Six) (2014). Two video pieces for the project – Untitled (Porcelain) and The Last Festivities of the Passing Summer – are the focal points of the project and were created with an express purpose. The full version of the video Russian Fashion (2020) is also a premiere, just like the first two films. The three videos establish visual and narrative harmony and unravel the idea behind the exhibition’s title – The Circumstances of Insurmountable Time.

Project curators: Karina Karaeva and Marina Fedorovskaya.

The exhibition is open until January 15, 2021.