Myymälä2 is proud to present the third and final edition of Quantum Critic, a three year project that supports artistic exchange between Finland, Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine. The project brings together artists who all share the same passion for expressing their ideas, feelings, and conceptual frameworks in their artistic practice and who continue to work in difficult times and situations.
This third year asks the audience to consider 'uncertainty relations', which is known in quantum mechanics as the uncertainty principle, meaning that 'one cannot assign exact simultaneous values to the position and momentum of a physical system.' (
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/).
Taking this as our metaphoric starting point the exhibition explores how art and artistic production exhibits characteristics of uncertainty in their pursuit of their craft and what they pay attention to but also asks to consider how art production can keep on existic in uncertain times. The exhibition shows a diorama of discrete works which hopefully put the public and their relation to the materialised artwork in question. In this we follow Alvar Noe in asking "Why are we so blind, why do we see so little, when there is so much around us to see?.[…] Seeing is an achievement, our achievement, the achievement of making contact with what there is. We can fail to see".
Seeing artistic production through the lens of the uncertainty principle means to understand the artwork as either having a position or a momentum, the art object becomes stationary when it is exhibited and observed but has momentum when it is worked on. In the same way, what the artist depicts is always within the principle of uncertainty and especially interesting are moments of observation in which a variety of explanations and determinants can be assigned to parts or even the whole artwork, without conflict, making it possible for a single person to view a single artworks and see multiple things at once.
Quantum critic received a grant from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture as an International Cooperation and Intercultural Dialogue project.
Venue: Myymälä2 pop up gallery
Date: 30 September – 29 October 2023
Katia Ablamskaya (RU / RS), Igor Baranov (RU / RS), Daria Boudanova (RU / GE), Benji Boyadgian (PS / FI), Ira Derviz (RU / RS), Farbod Fakharzadeh (IR / FI), Kateryna Harahulia (UA / FI), Tonya (Ton) Melnyk (UA / FI), Eglė Pilkauskaitė (LT), Valery Pirogov (UA / FI), Slava Ptrk (RU / ME), Aurora Del Rio (IT / FI), Sasha Rotts (RU / FI), Maryna Semenkova (UA / DE), Regina-Mareta Soonsein (EE)
Address: Katariinankatu 4, 00170, Helsinki
Venue: Metaverse space
Date: 30 September 2023
Benji Boyadgian (PS / FI), Farbod Fakharzadeh (IR / FI), Maria Fox Larsson (RU / FI), Daria Goncharova (RU / RS), Spartak Khachanov (UA / FI), Alla Mezentseva (RU), Eglė Pilkauskaitė (LT), Alexey Ryabov (RU / KZ), Aurora Del Rio (IT / FI), Nikita Shokhov (RU / US), Regina-Mareta Soonsein (EE), Lada Uchaeva (RU / ME), Margarita Zhuravleva (RU)
