Project date: 2020
Type: Group work
Co-authors: Egor Orlov, Alisa Silantieva, Anna Andronova
Description:
In 2070, creatures comparable to sea dolphins were discovered on unidentified clusters of parallel solar systems: singing and dancing, they wandered around glowing stars, coloring the dense space.
Shortly before that, the possibility of regular space travel opened up to humanity. But the dense and distorted space of cosmoc required new forms for high-speed communication. Then, in the process of studying the physical distortions of outer space, we came across Flippers, creatures that lived in the cracks of breaking matter. Trying to enter into a dialogue with them, we realized that their bodies were radically opposed to any methods of perception known to us. Wanting to talk to the Flippers, we started looking for new ones.
Silent giant creatures occupying a third of outer space, because of the distorted size of their bodies, refracted any space and everything that was around them. Once in their aura, any matter began to break, burst and stick, so it was impossible to feel the touch of cosmic animals without multiple distortions associated with them. Their bodies had different densities, which allowed them to pass light through themselves — the only substance of the cosmos capable of moving at high speeds and neutralizing most of such distortions.
The incommensurable scales of the Flippers distorted not only space, but also matter, time, objects and information. With the usual optics, Flippers seemed incomprehensible to us, and in order to get closer to understanding them, we stopped trying to perceive them directly. We have invented technologies of distortion, refraction, stretching the physicality of outer space — new ways of interacting with Flippers.
In an attempt to depict the possible essence of Flippers, our exposition creates a space on the complex ratio of the volume of the body and its shell, in which the recognition of objects is distorted. Located at different points of the hall, the transparency pattern on the body of dolphins forms semi-familiar images that we catch like images of clouds floating in the sky. The drawing — the mirror of our imagination — travels from the volumes of bodies on the plane of the walls, floor, ceiling, capturing the space of the pavilion hall with rays of light and color images.
What if we could draw in the fourth dimension? Where the plane will no longer be a spatial limit. Is it possible for a new space that breaks all the dimensions known to us, combines several at once? Is it possible for a place where dimensions, merging and overlapping each other, would create a new way of exchanging ideas, images and information? What if the spatial boundaries of the cosmos are limited only by our imagination?
