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The story with the movie "Golden Fish" began corny with the advent of innovation at that time video cameras on Olegovka. Nobody knew then that after the installation of the film, the opening of the “Fiction Gallery Expedition” will take place, where this video will be demonstrated for the first time. In the meantime, Vova Zaichenko borrowed a camera from someone for a week and shot everything, wondering at the speed of video playback on a regular TV. The selection of what to shoot narrowed and at some point stopped at the death mask of A.S. Pushkin, which hung on my wall in the workshop. I came up with the idea to do my own fingerprinting of the face, and this process was filmed on video to the music of “The Residents” - Eskimo.

Immediately looking at the action on the monitor, we saw something sacred in the process - something between life and death, a living body and a fixed cast of the cast’s identity. The cast mask looked like a vessel into which water can be poured, but with a certain tilt of the chamber, the opposite illusion of the convexity of the impression arose. I came up with the idea of ​​the plot "Golden Fish". It consisted in the fact that a living organism can live in a vessel, if there is an environment for existence.

So art can exist until a plaster cast is frozen. Art is always in the process itself, like a visit to magic that you can never fix permanently. Fixation is just a frozen artificial cast, as a testament to the process of creation in time, which can be destroyed or saved.

In general, art belongs to the category of an ideal, sublime, intangible, intangible or abstract phenomenon. Fixation i.e. a work of art as a category of exhibition activity, collecting, market, etc., as a reminder of the presence of an eternal goldfish that floated away to another space of the process. In our case, the opening and departure of the Fiction Gallery Expedition. 

To be continued ... >>>

Igor Konovalov