Daniil Zinchenko / Cities

Presented by the Artist

The video installation ’Cities’ is based on the game of the same name. This installation creates a model for understanding infinite space (infinity is what cannot be seen beyond the horizon) by speaking the names of specific geographical points — cities.

The rules of the game make the connection with space very wide-ranging, even chaotic: a shift from the Far North to the Krasnodar region, for example. And the connection is emphasised as we are prompted by the space itself: the names of cities featured in the game appear on a second projection. A self-contained system is produced — we gaze into the distance and the distance gazes at us. The emerging names are like flashes of concrete reality, a sudden momentary awakening from the white desert ahead.

Daniil Zinchenko