The Silt project, like many of Fedora Akimova's projects, arises out of the conservative plastic tradition. The exposition includes ten assemblages, or collage assemblies of two series, found as ready-made, and several videos. The project generates the idea of a kind of planetary alternative, ecological and radically antisocial - this is the Earth without people.

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The epic principal video documents the placid landscape and its inhabitants - large animals and dinosaurs. In an alternative history, they had not died out, but continued to evolve improving their minds, survived glaciations, civilization and now, in harmony with themselves and with the world, rule the planet along with other animals. The shallow shelf where they graze has a wonderful feature - there materializes and disappears a grandiose portal, marked by the visual code of the sacred, by a dialect of an inhuman cult.

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Intricate and fanciful designs and formal assemblies of shapes, textures and surfaces, fragments of household items found in landfills and flea markets are the best that familiar things could offer. And yet everyday things are the familiar to us boundaries of the developed territory of the human, they show us its close border. We know that we cannot overcome it. But you we reassemble these familiar things and gain new experience, while remaining within the same boundaries.

Alexander Evangely