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Petroliana
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project description
At the end of the 19th century, oil entered the collective imagination as a major symbol of “progress”. Petroleum embodied the promise of industrial modernity to create a decent society for the masses, transformed by the labour saving inventions. But during the 20th century, petroleum has undergone spectacular metamorphoses in public opinion. Today petroleum presents itself as a material whose supplies are constantly depleted, as something that has a strategic role on the world market, and as a part in the “mythologies” of different societies. Petroleum often fuels social inequalities, creating extravagant and riotous lifestyles for some and involving the others in disastrous international adventures. It has become a sign of excessive consumerism and energy-addiction in Western societies and a symbol of corporate greed and environmental irresponsibility, a metaphor of an unprecedented unjust distribution of wealth in modern Russia. The exhibition Petroliana (‘Oil Patriotism’) was envisioned as a critical inquiry. The participants of the exhibition address both the actual role of petroleum and its representation in film and media.
organiser
- Moscow government
- Moscow Committee of Culture
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- Elena Sorokina
artists
- Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
- Armageddon (Film)
- Art not Oil
- Justin Beal
- Ursula Biemann
- BP
- Ilya Budraitskis and Maria Kurzina
- Sergei Bugaev Afrika
- Bureau d’Etudes
- Heidi Cody
- Christopher Draeger
- Yevgeniy Fiks
- Anton Ginzburg
- Johan Grimonprez and Charlotte Låouzon
- Olga Kisseleva
- Ilya Kitup
- Elena Kovylina
- Jan Kopp
- Demian Kuleshov
- Ellen K. Levy
- Armin Linke
- Erbosyn Meldibekov
- Jason Middlebrook
- Andrey Molodkin
- Antony Muntadas
- Ivan Navarro
- Ahmet Ogut
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Oliver Ressler and Dario Azzellini
- REP Group
- Oksana Shatalova and Alla Girik
- Wael Shawky
- Sean Snyder
- Matthew Suib
- David Ter-Oganyan
- The Yes Men
under support
- ARTStrelka projects
- NB Gallery, Moscow
- Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
- I-20 Gallery, New York
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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