Katya Ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)

Card XIX. De Zon [The Sun] of the Tarot Edition by 78 Belgian artists, conceived and curated by Emma Keppens & Adriënne van der Werf, 2021

Image 7: exhibition view Tarot Edition, 019, Ghent (Be), 2021

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The card features the image of the three-dimensional model depicting the mouvement of the artists in relation to the mouvement of the Sun during the live performance Axe de Révolution (2014)

"Axe de Révolution (2014) is a 17-hour performance, during which two artists silently walked through Moscow from the most Northern point on the Moscow Orbital Highway to the most Southern point, carrying a 6 meter long 13,5 kilo heavy metal structural element of rectangular section. 

While the Sun was moving from the East to the West, they were heading forward along a straight 45 km long line through the city, synchronizing their way across Moscow’s circular urban structure, that in its shape reminds the Copernican heliocentric model (Copernican Revolution), and constructing a cross with the trajectory of the Sun. 

The initial latin term 'revolution', as coined by Copernicus, means circular motion, while in everyday use it expresses a drastic overturn (usually in political sense). Further from being historically charged with the imaginaire of the Great Russian revolution, this ambivalence underlines the artists’ intention ‘to coordinate the movement of a cosmic body’ and their ‘intimate endeavor of inner profound revolution’.”  Katya Krupennikova, cat. The End of the World, Prato (It), 2016