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Information sheet

ANYA TITOVA

A Time Capsule

18 March 2016 until 29 May 2016

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Content

Exhibition Facts 3

Exhibition Text 4

Biography 5

Art Education Programme 6

Exhibits 7

Press Images 10

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Exhibition Facts

Exhibition Title ANYA TITOVA. A Time Capsule

Exhibition Period 18 March 2016 until 29 May 2016

Opening Thursday, 17 March 2016, 7 pm

Press Conference Thursday, 29 May 2016, 9:30 am

Exhibition Venue LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Basement

Curator Klaudia Kreslehner

Exhibits The artist has developed an overall installation. The passable imaginary

architectural pieces question the human order of things.

Exhibition Booklet A free exhibition booklet with information on the exhibits is available in

German and English language.

Contact Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz, +43(0)732/7070-3600;

info@lentos.at, www.lentos.at

Opening Hours Tue–Sun 10am to 6pm, Thur 10am to 9pm, Mon closed

Admission € 8, concessions € 6,50

Press Contact Johanna Hofer, Phone. +43(0)732/7070-3603, johanna.hofer@lentos.at

Available at the Press Conference:

Bernhard Baier, Deputy Mayor and Head of Municipal Department of Culture

Stella Rollig, Director LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

Anya Titova, Artist

Klaudia Kreslehner, Curator

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Exhibition Text

Anya Titova has been making an impact on the art scene as an artist, curator, collector, researcher

and exhibition designer.

Her projects are based on historical and/or scientific material and are realised in a number of

different media such as film, photography, objects, installations and architecture.

In her first museum exhibition in Austria, the artist puts on display A Time Capsule – a fantastic,

fictional architectural structure that calls the human order of things into question. Transposed into

new contexts, the artefacts that Titova uses link events of the past to topical themes, underscore

points of contact and highlight what has perhaps been overlooked or suppressed until now.

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Biography

Anya Titova,b. 1984, Ulan-Ude, Russia, studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Moscow Institute of

Contemporary Art and the Valand Academy in Gothenburg.

Her work employs a variety of media – from sculpture, video and photography to installation – to

trace social and cultural symptoms at points of intersection between politics and aesthetics: among

them, systems of surveillance and control, ideological constructions of space, forms of life and the

technology of oppression. Using multiple means of expression, Titova creates narratives that blend

the documentary with fiction, critical analysis and visual poetry.

Selected group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale in 2011, the Moscow International Biennale

for Young Art 2013, parallel program of Manifesta 2014, parallel programs of the Moscow Biennale

of Contemporary Art 2015 and the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015.

In 2014, together with Stanislav Shuripa, Titova founded the Agency of Singular Investigations

(ASI), an independent platform for critical engagement with the defining issues around art and

creative discourse. In 2015, Titova received a scholarship for young artists from the Garage

Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

The artist lives and works in Moscow.

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Art Education Programme

GUIDED TOURS

Every Thursday, 7 pm

The guided tours combine the two exhibitions Anya Titova and The Collection.

Duration 1 hour, costs € 3, exclusive admission, German only

Thursday, 7 April, 7 pm

the curator Klaudia Kreslehner leads through the exhibition

Duration 1 hour, costs € 3, exclusive admission, German only

Thursday, 12 May, 7 pm the artist Anya Titova leads through the exhibition Duration 1 hour, costs € 3, exclusive admission, Guided Tour in English

Guided group tours

Duration 1 hour, maximum group size 25, in German or English

Adults, € 65.00 plus admission fees

Students, € 45.00 plus admission fees at concessionary rate

School groups, € 35.00, admission free for groups

REGISTRATION

Teleservice Center der Stadt Linz unter T +43 (0)732 7070

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Exhibition Booklet

In A Time Capsule, spatial structure is marked by two poles that integrate objects and images into

a network. At the intersections of various contexts each element of the installation becomes a

meeting point where aspirations

of the past meld with the current moment, the analog meets the digital, the archaic flickers through

the quotidian. History and the present collide, fragments of memories from different times and

places overlap, inviting viewers to participate in the process of the production of meaning. Key

theme in A Time Capsule is the perception of power and its relationship with the power of

perception.

Pavilion, 2016

Metal, wood, paint, resin

Courtesy the Artist

Pavilion can be seen as an entrance to the A Time Capsule narrative. It refers

to the two distinct versions of social spaces in the modern era. One is the project of the Panopticon

by Jeremy Bentham (1748−1832), a perfectly rational organisation of space equally suitable for

factories and prisons. The other is garden design with its taste for gazebos and allegorical

sculpture. These models are based on opposed ways of seeing reality: techno-scientific and

aesthetic. The former comprises production, discipline and control, the latter is about consumption,

leisure and freedom. Fusing these oppositions, the artist reveals the dreamlike character of social

space.

Pavlov’s Dog, 2016

Resin, paint, rope

Courtesy the Artist

This image of a dog points to ideas about humans. Pavlov’s dog became an iconic image of the

victory of functionalist thinking that is responsible for massive social and anthropological

transformations of the 20th century. It might be a metaphor of the individual in the mass society, as

well: Pavlov’s dog reacts to stimuli automatically, like a manipulated consumer. At the same time,

progress turns dogs and other animals into stand-ins for humans in medical experiments. This is

why the artist chooses to depict not a living dog, but a mannequin for taxidermy.

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Greenhouse Library, 2016

Glass, metal, resin, found objects

Courtesy the Artist

The books are from the early 90s, the time of possibilities and disorientation in post-Soviet Russia.

Their authors are cult leaders and faith healers, esoteric gurus and prophets such as Juna

Davitashvili (1949−2016), or Evgeny “New Nostradamus“ Berezikov (b.1936). At crucial points of

history, the printed word may cease to be a vehicle of Enlightenment; instead such publications

worked as survival guides in the new chaos of “wild“ capitalism. By making a specially designed

display case a part of the work the artist points to the conventional character of our historical

experience and invisible presuppositions constructed in the present to define the perception of the

past.

Catalogue, 2016

Video, 7 min, sound

Courtesy the Artist

This video makes a reference to archaeological practices. The fragments of broken ceramics seem

both different and related to each other, though the rules that determine their sequence remain

unknown. What we know is that there can be no identical wrecks since no two collisions are the

same. History is an incessant variation of the disastrous; the past inscribes its traces in the outlines

of each fragment. Traumatic memories of often violent interactions form their identities that

become the objects of observation. The traces of past events transform themselves into a system

of differences, that is time into space.

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LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

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Press Images

Press Images available for download at www.lentos.at.

Anya Titova, Rituals of Resistance, 2012, © Anya Titova

Anya Titova, Rituals of Resistance, 2012, © Anya Titova

Anya Titova, Untitled, 2016, Courtesy Anya Titova

Anya Titova, Untitled, 2016, Courtesy Artwin Gallery

Anya Titova, Untitled, 2016, Courtesy Artwin Gallery

Exhibition View Anya Titova, Photo: Reinhard Haider

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Exhibition View Anya Titova, Photo: Reinhard Haider

Exhibition View Anya Titova, Photo: Reinhard Haider

Exhibition View Anya Titova, Photo: Reinhard Haider