The interdisciplinary approach of the Nizhny Novgorod art group PROVMYZA (Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov), as the duo themselves put it, allows them to "jump from one rooftop to another." Yet, each new work is not without powerful, empathetic images, presenting their own temporality as an endlessly lived experience. Often, affect becomes a stunning anthropological lens in the artists' works, leaving no hope for the viewer to remain in the position of an outside observer.

At the 13th edition of the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, PROVMYZA presented the three-part photographic work "Seeds." This project invites us to explore the phenomenon of "performative sculpture," which, on the one hand, refers us to classical forms and concepts of sculpture—composition, volume, plasticity—and, on the other, to cutting-edge performance practices and media technologies. Behind this search for a new visuality in plastic art lies a rethinking of the understanding of monumentality and transience.

The central object of the photo triptych "Seeds" is a sculpture of a mother with children hanging from her boulder-like figure. Like a collective body, it is visually captured in a performative "affect" and harks back to the religious Middle Ages and Baroque – eras in which man was not so much the center of the world as a being entangled in the web of the universe.

The polyphonic structure of interlocking bodies in space is likened to a choir "struggling with its own disintegration," balancing between harmony and chaos.

The project was realized with the support of the Cosmoscow Foundation (https://t.me/cosmoscowfair), the fashion house USHATÁVA (https://t.me/ushatavainside), MYTH (https://t.me/mythgallery), and Gallery 9B.

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Timiryazev Center, Moscow, Verkhnyaya Alley, 8