Materials: modeling paste, metals, oxidizing agents

The project was presented as part of the collective exhibition “We Lived So Strangely for Two Thousand Years”, at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art.

Taking the Russian folk epic “Vavila and the Buffoons” as a basis and combining it alternately with V. Pelevin’s work “Omon Ra”, as well as with V. Sorokin’s work “Sugar Kremlin”, two completely different versions of the same epic were obtained in terms of narrative.

It was these two versions of the same epic that became the starting point for the creation of a series of objects that were integrated into the museum space so as to maintain a sense of dialogue between the objects of the DRUSBA community and the permanent museum exhibition.

The image of the buffoon as a leitmotif of a series of objects and paintings became for the viewer a trickster guide into a fantasy world, reimagined with the help of modern technologies.