The main idea behind the No Time project is to bring together and unite artistic works that are in one way or another linked to the phenomenon of time, its perception and its contradictoriness. The exhibition presents works of thirty artists. The exposition includes works created in various media, though the focus is on painting and plastic at in the broadest sense of the term.
The exhibition can be divided into several sections. The first part of the exhibition is largely a reflection on the Soviet past. These are shards of the memories of the artists, an eternal return to the past, a kaleidoscope of recollections and, similarly, a view on the ruins of the Soviet. And yet, however, these aren't just images linked to socialist heritage. It is a conception of the past in general, including the themes of oblivion and the wiping clean of memory.
The next section of the exhibition represents a meditative experiencing of time that is born out of a sense of the absence of its movement, of its having stopped. The artist captures with his pencil on the paper the trajectory of birds in flight, observing that flight from the window of his studio. Or he transfers to the canvas the text of an entire book, layering its lines over one another. Or he paints one and the same pattern again and again, in so doing transforming the painting into a graphic mandolin.
Yet another section of the exhibition is a full or partial negation of the present moment in history. This could be expressed in the form of pure abstraction revealing aesthetic intuition. Or, as a critical representation of nascent landscapes as a new spatial visuality. This rejection of a digestion of reality, this disturbance of the given, spills over in the form of emotional quotations of the most acute and painful moments of conflict or the verification of the fact of the everyday monotony of what is taking place.
The last section represents a confusion in time and space. This is a certain kind of twilight of perception, a knocking off of one's internal compass. It's like a clock which can be used to tell the actual time, as the symbols on the clock face have become unclear. A picture stratified into a multitude of different pictures or, on the contrary, a composition collected from fragments of a different painting. It is both a chronological and a spatial disorientation.