Discussion "Surrealism – forever"

Today - just like a hundred years ago, when the surrealist movement arose - in the artistic world there are current trends towards a fascination with the unconscious, an increase in the role of imagination and various “fruits of fantasy” - only now often created using new technical means, unknown in the 1920s. Media-dramatic events in (a) reality provoke interest in parallel dimensions and paranormality, and events in the “public spectacle” force the creation of increasingly impressive, exciting, “lush” and historical statements. The situation in the modern artistic process and the reincarnation of surrealist strategies will be discussed by artists, curators and art historians.

Moderator: 
Daria Pyrkina, PhD in art history, academic director of the program “Curator Practices in Contemporary Art” at the School of Design, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Participants:
Artists: Aristarkh Chernyshev, Irina Korina
Art historians: Irina Gorlova, Sasha Obukhova, Polina Nikitina