Katya Ev I Axe de Révolution, performance, Moscow

Untitled (Axe de Révolution)

series of 7 colour prints on paper, office plastic pockets, A4

2017

5 + 2 AP

courtesy of Katya Ev & Hanna Zubkova, private collection

ph Katya Ev

The live performance Axe de Révolution has expanded into a homologue body of works, sharing the same title (2014/2019) incl. film, photographs, sculpture, email, neon, print editions.

Untitled (Axe de Révolution) is part of the broader body of works, Axe de Révolution, which translates the original live performance into a multidisciplinary array of works.

"Axe de Revolution (2014) is a 17-hour performance, during which the artists silently walked through Moscow from the very North point of it on the orbital highway to the very South 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 artists’ intention ‘to coordinate the movement of a cosmic body’ and their ‘intimate endeavor of inner profound revolution [...]". Katya Krupennikova, The End of the World, Centro Pecci, Prato (It), 2016, p. 352-353