Iragui Projects together with Gallery 9B presents an exhibition of new works by Dima Kadyntsev “Grey Gardens”. The artist continues his search, which has started during art residencies in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, where he was not only engaged in the process of making paintings, drawings and objects made of ceramics and improvised materials, but also experimented with analog photography, printmaking and site-specific installations.

At the artist talk “Why do we create art?” at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Dima compared artistic practice to a contemporary form of subsistence farming and the cultivation of “strange fruits and vegetables.” In this process, he was most interested in nature itself, including the nature of art and time, as measured by the moments of encounters and pauses. These alternating moments become a single line in a space where the everyday routine is inseparable from the artistic, the made from the found, and the observer from the observed.

The title of the project refers to the poster of the documentary “Grey Gardens” (1975), which is stored in Dima’s studio among other images printed from the Internet. The movie is named
in honor of a dilapidated mansion whose inhabitants have lost contact with the world and the present time around them. However, nature does not tolerate emptiness and regret, and life in “Grey Gardens” continues, as well as the movement of Kadyntsev’s characters towards each other.

For the poster of the exhibition there is a photo taken by Dima on black-and-white film. It depicts one of the “strange fruits” ripened in the artist’s studio.

Elmira Minkina, curator

Malaya Polyanka, 7-5, Moscow. Mon - Fri, 14.00 - 19.00