"In the Salty Sand, the Sun Has a Musky Smell"

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

"The project is a series of three objects. Each object is a space inhabited by the visual objects that were created by the artist Kirill Makarov for the writings of the poet and psychoanalyst Ksenia Kononenko (project “In the Salty Sand, the Sun Has a Musky Smell”). Every space is formed like a utopian space for hybrid objects and shapes and contains contains a poem, which was written purposefully for the project (different visual invariants could be found: the form of a classical poetic line, slogan or a freestanding monumental object). Each type of expression has its own visual solution. Ksenia Kononeko Cycle of Poems for the Project «In the Salty Sand, the Sun Has a Musky Smell» if you let the postal codes, the pointers, coincide, then powered by prehistorical cockleshell or fire bird’s feather flesh’s imaginary grandeur will graduate from pink to ruddy purple the difference between fish that facilitate childbirth and footlights is almost imperceptible from such a flight. beneath them and beneath me, apparently, the same stage, namely, the lava, shakes and wobbles. I don’t prevaricate, I only have my doubts, I don’t know what gesture’s truth has to do with truth be told, whether it has anything to do with the piece of fiction by the bench, where nobody asks any more how to get up, how to sit down, how the zero finger twitches and how the vein walks around blue in a totally different part of town. obviously: the skin is the stage, the body is dressed, and how rumpled the whole thing is, how battered and wrinkled, how chilly how pointy how minty how nettle some or something after all. Translated from Russian by Thomas H. Campbell"