"Founded in 2014 by Stanislav Shuripa and Anna Titova, the Agency of Singular Investigations presents itself as a research agency devoted to “alternative” subjects pursued with utmost rigor, at the crossroads of documentary analysis, institutional fiction, and speculative critique. In a world saturated with information and clashing narratives, the agency probes how history is constructed in a posttruth era, mapping the grey zones between fact and fiction, archive and imagination.
Yet Titova and Shuripa step aside to expose the contradictions and ambiguities baked into official discourse, revealing the dogmatism of vagueness in a cognitive universe where peremptory statements confirm uncertainty and clear the way for the most improbable theories. Through this stance, the Agency calls for critical vigilance toward dominant narratives and a continual reevaluation of sources and interpretations. The Agency wields the counterfactual parable as an alternative history, one that might have been preferable, encouraging encapacitation (empowerment) in the face of history and narrative…"
Nicolas Audureau
Anna Titova (b. 1984) is an artist and educator. Titova’s practice is based on historical and archival research, which informs her installations, sculptures, and collages. In 2014, she co-founded the Agency of Singular Investigations, an initiative dedicated to experimenting with artistic research into the documentary and the archival as an extended field. Titova’s work has been exhibited at the Vienna Secession, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the 54th Venice Biennale, the 1st Riga International Biennial, and the 1st Biennale Warszawa, among others. Titova lives and works in Paris.
Stanislav Shuripa (b. 1971) is an artist, writer, curator, educator, and co-founder of the Agency of Singular Investigations. In his artistic practice Shuripa explores the relationships between social space, the gaze, micro-utopias, and personal mythologies. In 2018, his book “Action and Meaning in the Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century” was awarded the Innovation Prize. Since 2018 he is a head of the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art, an independent educational program. His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Ravenna Art Museum, Benaki Museum, among others. Shuripa lives and works in Paris.