#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. PolArt resident Elena Skripkina invites everyone to the final meeting. Thanks to the artist’s project, Norilsk residents plunged into Dante’s metaphorical forest and emerged from it with acquisitions. The first meeting was devoted to Phenomenology of the Dark Forest.
“Through the image of a forest, artists of all times convey different ideas and meanings. The forest is present in painting, music, and literature. The forest in its most varied manifestations, direct and allegorical, is the leitmotif of Elena Skripkina’s work. The book The Forest by the Russian philosopher Vladimir Bibihin once became her desktop guide. It’s an amazing thing – multi-layered, complex, designed for a trained listener”, said the Norilsk Museum.
Elena Skripkina herself is also a philosopher: after traveling around India and getting to know different religious schools, she defended her dissertation on the philosophy of religion on the topic Eschatological Image in the Art of the 20th Century.
At the master class, the artist taught those present to keep a personal diary of observations of the forest, using a phone application and available natural materials collected in the tundra.
At the final meeting, Elena Skripkina will tell you what kind of texture was collected in Norilsk for the Artist’s Sound Book dedicated to the Russian North. The northern city will become its chapter.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Ekaterina Vyshinskaya / Norilsk Museum
