VARIOUS SMALL FIRES at 1212 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice Beach,VARIOUS CA 90291 SMALL www.vsf.la FIRES 812 N HIGHLAND AVE LOS ANGELES 90038 VSF [email protected] / 310.426.8040 “Group Show at Moscow Museum of Modern Art,” Contemporary Art Daily, October 13, 2012. “Group Show at Moscow Museum of Modern Art,” Contemporary Art Daily, October 13, 2012, page 1 of 2. Group Show at Moscow Museum of Modern Art Images courtesy of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow 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, Frances Stark, 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, sculpture, 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. VARIOUS SMALL FIRES 812 N HIGHLAND AVE LOS ANGELES 90038 VSF [email protected] / 310.426.8040 VARIOUS SMALL FIRES at 1212 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice Beach, CA 90291 www.vsf.la “Group Show at Moscow Museum of Modern Art,” Contemporary Art Daily, October 13, 2012, page 1 of 2. 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. .