‘与纸共舞’— 叶夫根尼·格拉尼利什奇科夫
From The LACUNE project. This project speaks of human and historical fragility, of the brittleness of memory, of things that have not been preserved but continue to gape-with their glowing voids-through the centuries. LACUNE is a gap, a screaming emptiness that makes us reflect on how we continue to live among the ruins of history.
In this video, the artist performs unusual choreographic gestures, attempting to dry and straighten a sheet of paper painted black. The paint is applied only on one side, and the sheet, moving in the frame, alternately shows the black and white sides. Sometimes it resembles fluttering flags, with which the artist dances. White is associated with defeat, while black is linked to struggle: anarchy, avant-garde, progress, revolution. The artist dances with the sheet until it disintegrates, as if art itself refuses binary oppositions and reminds us of the complexity of the world, where between black and white there exists an infinite number of shades.
Born on 1985, in Moscow, Russia.
Evgeny Granilshchikov is a multidisciplinary artist based in Clermont-Ferrand and Paris, FR.
He graduated from the Rodchenko Art School in 2013 and works across media ranging from drawing, moving images to video installation and performance which constitute the current focus of his practice.
Granilshchikov was the winner of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013 and a finalist for the Innovation Prize in 2016. His time-based project Unfinished Film was screened during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, where it won the Open Frame Award in 2016.
In 2022 he received a scholarship from the French embassy and now lives in France, where he is working on several films focused on themes such as home loss and the phenomenon of collective and historical trauma.
Education
Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow.
Institute of Journalism and Literature, Moscow
Lyceum of Animation Cinematography, Moscow
Statement
In my practice, I strive to find simple gestures or metaphors to express a rather personal experience of living through history. Every performance or series of drawings is associated with specific socio-political events.
In my works I have dealt with the themes of injustice and police brutality, collective historical traumas and civil resistance; I have talked about the most basic things such as compassion and heroism of the common man, about love and loss, about the relentless march of time, impossibility to stop and understand all things in the world.
