Six months

Totan Kuzembaev

Six months

BornHouse/РодДом. Exhibition within the frame of the II Moscow bienali of contemporary art. MARHI, VKHUTEMAS Gallery.

It's been six months since we received an invitation to partisipate in this project. As time went by, a few ideas passed our minds. The first one was associated with water, since, according to Darwin, all life forms came out of water. In our case, we wanted salt to avolve from water, or something else to evolve from salt.

Later we had an idea to grow something within the exhibition time frames, id est a pot with soil, seeds, et cetera.

There was also an idea with rocks.

Eventually, by the six months we still have «delivered» nothing, but everyone came to realize that the place, where we generated our ideas or forms was, in fact, our "kitchen of ideas".

The table was swamped with piles of sketches, designs, materials, instruments, but none of those fit the required measurments of the new born. So, we decided to construct a fetus such as this one, a prematurely born, low-birth-weight and low-birth-lenght baby. And it is yet unknown, what's to come out of this. If a baby is bred for a period of nine months, then it's only fair to say that we experienced lack of time. You may even require twenty or sixty months to deliver a new form. At least we think, it's worth gathering more infotmation, until the quantity trnsits into new quality.