Katya Ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)

Images 1 - 3: Do Disturb#4, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (Fr), 2018, ph Ayka Lux

Images 4: Storm opkomst festival, De Warande, Turnhout (Be), ph wedocumentart

Images 5: La Nuit Blanche, Le Viaduc des Arts, Paris, ph Azad Asifovich

"This installation is linked to a performance entitled Augenmusik, which took place in Paris in June 2016 and involved twenty-four performers. Each performer walked from one of the city's gateways to the center of the city, carrying a flashing light legally purchased from the official supplier to the Police Prefecture. While the law penalizes the use of this rotating lamp in cars, it makes no provision for its use by pedestrians. Once arriving, each performer set down their flashing light on the floor in the absence of the other performers, to form a temporary agora. The two-tone ringtone was then used to recompose in unison Johann Sebastian Bach's renowned The Art of the Fugue piece, composed using 48 notes. 

This “music for eyes” is now a silent installation in which the siren of each flashing light has given way to its circular beam of light, thanks to the autonomous battery that assumes a DIY aesthetic in which the form of the object derives from its technical necessities. If the flashing light refers to the institutions governing public order, it is diverted from its signalling function to become a false “musical instrument”. It's a wave that electrifies space in an aphasia that marks the transformation of public intervention into a visual device that questions the very notion of democracy." Fabien Danesi, exhibition Etat d'Exception, Galerie Dix9, Paris (Fr), 2018