Aison Ower
photo by Galina Budagova
New York Academy of Art 2023-2025
KICA 2021-2023
Listener at Sergei Sitar and Oxana Sarkisyan lectures at MARSH 2021
Free workshops of Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Свободные мастерские ММОМА) 2020-2021
Moscow academy of fine art and watercolor (МГААИИ) 2015-2018 (not finished)
Residencies:
Art Norden (Russia, Kurkijoki) 2020 “altar”
Chateau Chapiteau (Georgia, Lagodehi) 2019 “inversion”
Exhibitions:
solo exhibitions
• “ПЫЛЬ” (“Longart gallery” Petrozavodsk 2021) (curator: Elena Sheveleva)
• "трансгрессия"(DK gallery Minsk 2021)
• Public inversion (Barcelona Spain 2020)
• Inversion (ChateauChapiteau art residency, Lagodekhi, Georgia, December 2019)
group exhibitions
• "Bloom" (Hanoi, Vietnam 2022)
• «мечты о свободе» (New Tretyakov gallery, Moscow 2021)
• «адаптация» (MMoMa Moscow Russia 2021) (curator: Daria Kamyshnikova)
• «winzavod open» (“Winzavod” Moscow 2021)
• «интерьеры» (abandoned house Moscow 2021) (curator: Nastua Kovaleva)
• “Внутри Куркиёки» (“синий коридор” Petrazavodsk 2021)
• «Strah» art community Beznazvaniiya (“ARS SKLAD” Vladimir 2021) (curators: Anna Lyalina)
• “Fragile” (“Zverev Center” Moscow Russia, 18.01.2021-06.02.2021)
• “Давно желанная” of art community Beznazvaniiya (Sushnevo Russia August 2020) (curators: Anna Lyalina)
Publications:
| Tretyakov Gallery |
the feling of detachment. I wanted to dissect it, take it to pieces. in Kurkiyoki I saw the sun, in a way as I never seen it before. Very sharp, distant and icy. Orange, behind a layer of cold yellow mist. I thought it was it. Alienation. Isn't it when space appears between objects. Isn't it that particular feeling. Physical and mental. In Kurkiyoki, icicles are everywhere, they are incredibly beautiful, so fragile and so frightening.
Field Note 52: Icicles in Kurkiyoki only grow on inhabited huts because they are warm ... but there are no icicles on abandoned ones.
-not the space between things is the feeling of alienation, but the fear of this space, anxiety about this space, the vagueness of this space, instability
this is it
alienation
We talked a lot about music .. Kurkiyoki is incredibly quiet and incredibly loud at the same time.
Once Cage was taken into a room with huge soundproofing needles, he stayed there for a long time. To his opinion it was not working cause he still heard some sounds. It turned out to be the sounds of his body .. silence is very fragile, very subjective and also silence is space
I thought, most accurate visual metaphor for space is silence. And icicles are sound insulating needles. they are fear
I decided to simulate the imitation of how soundproofing needles simulate subjective silence, I wanted to imitate a soundproofing room. Maybe just an impression of it. In an abandoned barn.
With the time
Icicles. It remained only in my head and on paper.
That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below
to do the miracle of one only thing
And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.
The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
Separate thou the earth from the fire,
the subtle from the gross
sweetly with great industry.
It ascends from the earth to the heaven and again it descends to the earth
and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
Its force is above all force,
for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.
So was the world created.
From this are and do come admirable adaptations where of the means is here in this.
Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended.
2021
object - wound
object - cut
Invisible object - transparent
Calm like a wave
Loud as a creak on glass
Disappearing and manifesting, depending on the point of the beholder.
Fuzzy
Not clear
Broken
Fragile
Terrifying
Dangerous
Cold
Quiet
Metal, Soviet glass from an old window, oil, time
Let's say I see myself in the mirror, but this means that I see myself where I, as a concrete real being, am absent, and this is obvious since I am not in the place where I am reflected. By becoming a reflection, I get my “no-place”. But as soon as I identified myself in a real place through my own reflection (without this I cannot be reflected at all), the mirror effect disappears, I can no longer look at it at all. Nevertheless, I find my place with the help of the mirrored no-place. The no-place event precedes the place event." Philosopher V A Podoroga once wrote.
And I believe artists and their practice can also be read by means of mirror mechanics, which includes a play of two stable appearances, between which it is impossible to make a distinguished separation.
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