Russian space

Triumph gallery, Moscow, 2014

This project is about lost dreams, everybody gets lost looking at the stars, looking to something far away that isn't getting you anywhere. It was a beautiful dream of reaching for the stars and living on other planets. At 60's all world had lived this dream. Now this dream seems a bit naive.

The exhibit looks at different conceptions of the world beyond in a number of ways starting with the tribute to the George Lucas epic film series as you come in.

We chose to match the 'Star Wars' font because it is something from the past that is an anticlimax when we watch it now, it is not like when we watched it in childhood. It is naive.

The exhibit plays with the story told, in illustrating the theory of relativity, of twin brothers. One heads into space while the other remains on earth. When the first returns to earth he will have a different time on his watch and will be younger than his brother.

"Russian Space" is about the Russian present gazing into the sky in the hope that the "mythical cosmonaut" from the Russian heroic past will return, bringing with it a radiant future.