body weight

pavel brat

August 8 — September 1, 2013
Triumph gallery

Pavel Brat (b. 1987, Voronezh) has presented three solo exhibitions over the past five years, and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the famous ICONS project (creative space "Tkachi", St. Petersburg, 2013).

This year, my Brother was among the nominees for the Kuryokhin Prize in the nomination "Best Visual Work of Art" with a work from the project "Life Support". At his first exhibition in Moscow, the artist will present a series of works entitled "Body Weight".

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"Body weight: Mass"
Paper, aluminum
140 × 110 × 65 cm

This year, my Brother was among the nominees for the Kuryokhin Prize in the nomination "Best Visual Work of Art" with a work from the project "Life Support". At his first exhibition in Moscow, the artist will present a series of works entitled "Body Weight".

Pavel Brat experiments with the structure of paper, studying its properties and relationships with other materials. Starting with collages, the artist gradually moved to three-dimensional forms, bending and connecting dense magazine sheets. Pavel Brat: "Paper is designed in such a way that when it comes into contact with water, it absorbs it into itself and eventually creates tremendous pressure in an enclosed space. This pressure creates reality on the plane, filling all the voids, or comes out of it, if there are no such voids, passes into volume, although it is already voluminous in itself. Paper creates the same structures in this pressure dance that the Earth creates when continental plates collide."

The name "Body mass" is a formal indication of three-dimensionality, as well as a designation for the transition from abstraction to figurativeness: the interweaving of paper layers form shapes similar to the images on icons. Pavel Bratya says: "The circles turned into halos, the mass of magazines trapped inside them became the center of the holy spirit and the corruptible body that carries it." The installation, which will be located in the center of the exhibition space, will present an allusion to the Last Supper, where a table filled with paper arrays will "come to life" under the influence of water from thirteen droppers.