About the works of Anastasia Sosunova Screening and guided tour
| Miejsce: Galeria Arsenał w Białymstoku, ul. A. Mickiewicza 2 | |
10.03.2024 (Sunday), 12:00 pm
About the works of Anastasia Sosunova
Screening and guided tour by Post Brothers
As part of Anastasia Sosunova's solo exhibition Ghost Ship, the Arsenal Gallery presents a video screening followed by a guided tour with the curator Post Brothers. The event will be in English.
Anastasia Sosunova, DEMIKHOV DOG (2017), Video, sound, 7:23 min.
Demikhov's dogs were the result of experiments conducted by the Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov, who carried out the world's first head transplant operations in 1954. During the course of these experiments, two-headed dogs – able to survive for a short period – were created. In the video, Sosunova uses these experiments as a conceit through which to discuss experiences of cultural difference and the rifts of identity that riddle the region in which she was raised. Reflecting on her own experience of growing up in a Russian-speaking family on Lithuania's periphery, she works through the ubiquitous possibility of growing up as a foreigner in your own country. The footage used in the work was sourced from across the Baltic region, and is combined with fictitious characters, chimeric animated realities and not quite Lithuanian stories.
About the works of Anastasia Sosunova
Screening and guided tour by Post Brothers
As part of Anastasia Sosunova's solo exhibition Ghost Ship, the Arsenal Gallery presents a video screening followed by a guided tour with the curator Post Brothers. The event will be in English.
Anastasia Sosunova, DEMIKHOV DOG (2017), Video, sound, 7:23 min.
Demikhov's dogs were the result of experiments conducted by the Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov, who carried out the world's first head transplant operations in 1954. During the course of these experiments, two-headed dogs – able to survive for a short period – were created. In the video, Sosunova uses these experiments as a conceit through which to discuss experiences of cultural difference and the rifts of identity that riddle the region in which she was raised. Reflecting on her own experience of growing up in a Russian-speaking family on Lithuania's periphery, she works through the ubiquitous possibility of growing up as a foreigner in your own country. The footage used in the work was sourced from across the Baltic region, and is combined with fictitious characters, chimeric animated realities and not quite Lithuanian stories.
