Dance Macabre. 2023

When you experience such fear, you feel part of a common history, as opposed to a relatively individual fear of death. Not only is the human body short-lived, but also his culture. The second is often as scary as the first. Fear of the destruction of culture, its evolution or the loss of continuity within it can also form a collective entity, as can the fear of death. The schemes that Diana Machulina uses in her work, from the 20th century, call for both personal experience and the continuation of history as a kind of collective dance. We emerge from a general sense of insecurity in the face of oblivion. We want to dance.

Diana Machulina Macabre Iragui Gallery, Moscow 6 October — 8 December 2023