🗓️2014
YOUTH CENTER OF THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
Main Headquarters Building
📍45, Moyka River Emb, 3rd fl, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
◆Danaë◆
“Danae” is a multimedia object-sculpture made of “living” round mirrors that quiver when a ray of light touches their surface. the sculpture’s general outline could be related to the figure of Danae from Rembrandt’s painting in the Hermitage collection. The artists turn to the myth about the god Zeus and the daughter of King Acrisius as a beautiful illustration of the vivifying force of the non-material in art. And this is not the only analogy: the round surfaces of the mirrors could be perceived as planets of the conditional universe that are being “enlivened” by light. It is no coincidence that one of the asteroids hurtles through the universe in search of living light was called “Danae”.