2017
Plastic Paradise
Speculative project on communal art and the promises of heaven
The project of Albokrinova addresses the phenomena of communal art (Zhek-art) as a mean to search for and obtain an individual utopia throught the practices of "marginal" creativity in public space.
In authors' opinion, the forms and compositions of Zhek-art refer to the concept of heavenly garden. There the flowers never fade, the wolf doesn't eat the lamb, the folk characters, mythic creatures and wondrous animals are ever-alive. Replaying the act of creation of Zhek-art the artist hopes to get into that alternative space, where the grey reality of a post-soviet city becomes the soil for the "heavenly gardens' to blossom, and into the alternative time, where social routines and reflections on ones' personal destiny are redeemed.

"Paradise Plastic" project is presented in the form of a show-room with typical objects of Zhek-art, instructions on how to create them. Thus, each visitor could, using the raw material and the guide, start creating ones' personal paradise. The form of a show-room appropriates "people's art" and envelops it in a sexy package of commercial design. It also brings the discourse about the Zhek-art phenomena on a conceptual level and puts its demiurgical intentions on top of the commonly seen "decorative" ones, that exist the border of private and public spaces.
Selected shooting from 'Plastic Paradise' showroom
«I frequently think I could invent some alternative space. A space where the time doesn't flow, where objects and thoughts are frozen in their perfection, where you can feel yourself. And happiness.
But I don't know where is my personal space of happiness, and what is my remedy from exhaustion, and whether I am capable to visualise, attract and build my own paradise.
But I know people who can. And I saw the worlds they create. I want to learn from them. I will follow anothers' paths, I will try anothers' scenarios, I will create another' paradise. I wonder if building somebody else's utopia makes it mine?"


Utopia studies for 'Plastic Paradise'
Visual materials for 'Plastic Paradise'
Pastures of Heaven
poster
Celectial bird
poster
Flying bug
poster
Pastures of Heaven
assembly instruction
Celectial bird
assembly instruction
Flying bug
assembly instruction
Plastic Paradise, 2017
Installation

1. Stand "Plastic Paradise" (with posters and assembly instructions)
1600х1700х500 mm

2. Stand "Flying bug"
1700х700х700 mm

3. Stand "Pastures of Heaven"
1700х700х700 mm

4. Stand "Celectial bird"
1700х700х700 mm

The "Plastic Paradise" project was created for the exhibition "Between fatigue: searching for new forms" (curators Elena Ischenko, Antonina Trubitsyna) in the framework of the Ural Industrial Biennal of Contemporary Art (Ekaterinburg) parallel program.

Curators of "Between fatigue…" proposed the artists to "model a situation" in which the enforcement to communication, estrangement of personal time and blurring of the borders between work and leisure common for contemporary life, will be discarded by a utopian construction, an artistic project that will manifest a human right for happiness, private space and voluntary and productive communication.
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