Roundtable of Fictives

Series of objects


2021








There are moments when hands become tongues, eyes, imaginations and pre-thoughts, at times arrested by and at others liberated with their own volition. I want to lure all of them to play. A wooden box unfolds into a toy set revealing a roundtable of 8 characters that include Text, the World Elephant, Hocus-Pocus, Fungus Prosaicus, Hans and Sophie, Apple on a Plate, a Holy Fool and Glass, Lead, Paper, Water. The set is accompanied by a monologue card for each one, and all members of this peculiar ensemble serve as emotional, psychological and imaginative support structures for anyone who plays with them. However, the act of playing also crumbles the support they stand to offer.

The work is a playful attempt to toy with the idea of coping mechanisms, bend support structures when they become too rigid, explore new footings one can rely on and at the same time expose the malleability of existing foundations.







Team


Text

Toy design

Expert advice

Woodwork

Graphic design

Illustrations

Production

Research

Translation

Corrector



Alexander Snegirev

Panika Derevya

Kotok | Alexander Grekov, Xenia Shishkova

Alexander Mamichev, Ilya Moskvitin, Sergey Semenov, Roman Yumatov, 
Vlad Steyck

Sarolta Szanto

Alisa Bunkova, Kristina Chernyavskaya, Panika Derevya

Alisa Bunkova, Kristina Chernyavskaya, Vasilisa Egorova

Ben McGarr

Yana Aladinskaya


Special thanks:
Sabih Ahmed, Madhusree Dutta, Jan Kryszons, Anna Kurapova, Olga Lytkina, Maria Plavinskaya, Asya Solovieva, Evgeniya Tulyankina, Jakub Wandzioch, Ala Younis

Commissioned by Akademie der Künste der Welt
Courtesy of the artist


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