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Artists: Viktor Alimpiev, Antoine Catala, Keren Cytter, Simon Denny, Shannon Ebner, Alexandra Galkina, David Ter-Oganyan, Boris Groys, Karl Holmqvist, Sanya Kantarovsky, Liz Magic Laser, Shana Lutker, Tobias Madison, Dafna Maimon, Laura Owens, Anna Parkina, Chadwick Rantanen, Asha Schechter, Stas Shuripa, , Sasha Suhareva, Anya Titova

Curators: Sanya Kantarovsky, Stas Shuripa Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Exhibition Title: Things, Words and Consequences Date: September 15 – October 14, 2012

Press Release: The exhibition “Things, Words and Consequences” brings together an international group of artists whose works encompass video and film, , painting, performance and installation. The constellation of approaches in the exhibition hinges on a concern with the role, status and nature of language in the current conditions of global digital communication.

Languages, or, in a broader sense, sign systems – capable of perpetually producing meanings, manifest themselves in varying forms. Language is ubiquitous, constantly producing and regulating human relationships, ideas and emotions that constitute reality. A consideration of language is only possible at a distance, where speech would reveal its social conventions.

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In effect, every artwork in the exhibition can be viewed as a research of marginal instances of communication: speech disorders, muteness, allusion, indirect or implicit significations. In the current day, when discourses are produced on a mass scale, local art practices and schools have joined the global media-sphere. Their common ambition is to seek new perspectives from where images of the present, described with conventional language, can be revealed as incomplete, paradoxical and fraught with unpredictable consequences.