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eng Automatic Translation

The KINDERGARTEN

Anna Skoromnaya 2017
multi-installation

Selected artworks

"The KINDERGARTEN cycle (2017) tackles the topic of the distortion and violation of children’s rights: the tragedy of children used as instruments of death in pseudo-religious terrorism in the installation Popcorn Machine, minors forced into slavery in the installation Cream Hand Mixer, and girls sold for marriage in the installation Cotton Candy Maker. The works in this unique kindergarten are based on the jarring juxtaposition between idealism and the cruel reality. With an air of normality, the space is filled with familiar children’s play equipment (swings, slides and coloured building blocks) and surrounded by the reassuring sounds of children recounting nursery rhymes. But spectators are then dragged without warning into a twisted fairy-tale dimension: the play items, a physical embodiment of how logic has been turned on its head, take on the shape of tools, and the children, embedded in the items, in turn become unwitting toys in the hands of adults, working instead of playing, struggling to carry bricks and wood, cleaning shoes, sewing clothes and breaking up stones.

The three installations that make up the cycle take their names from the various machines that produce food enjoyed by children in parks: the Popcorn Machine, which makes corn explode, used for the installation on children martyred in wars, the Cream Hand Mixer, a mechanical mixer that turns endlessly, like the children exploited at work in the second installation, and finally the Cotton Candy Maker, a candy floss machine that references the sad veil of the many child brides sold as if they were objects."