The exhibition features works united by the common idea of Rosalind Krauss's text "Notes on the Index" and structured around the concept of an index, which can be interpreted as a pointer, trace, or imprint. The works represent a model of thinking in which everything has or should have a hidden cause.
"All that exists now had a cause in the past. Patterns permeate everything around us, like dust on furniture or clues. They are the consequences of the passage of time and, correspondingly, of crimes. Observing them, we see only the outcome, the absence of what is far in time or space.
Sometimes, errors and glitches may arise in determining cause-and-effect relationships. They swap places and loops. There is an opinion that the consequence is somehow inherent in the cause, and the consequence inevitably occurs at the moment the cause arises. One could say that we observe inertia, the line along which the movement takes place. However, this line can only be noticed at the endpoint. The mode of thinking in which everything has or should have a hidden cause is played out in the presented works."
Exhibition participants, students of the BAZA Institute:
Sasha Bubnova (Perm), Kristina Valenkova (St. Petersburg), Alina Vlasova (Vladimir), Anastasia Detkova (Yekaterinburg), Anna Lisenkova (Perm), Snezhana Mikheeva (Samara), Ilya Mikheev (Samara), Tatiana Plotnikova (Voronezh), Dinara Ryskildina (Ufa), Lena Slobtseva (Perm), Pavel Filippov (Urzum), Kristina Shabanova (Novosibirsk).
Curator: Tatiana Plotnikova
Artistic Director: Svetlana Baskova.
Kristina Valenkova is represented in the exhibition with a video installation titled "Black Sea.”
The installation "Black Sea" as part of the group exhibition "Consequences as Means," curated by Tatiana Plotnikova, at the Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow, 2023. Photo: Evgenia Zubchenko.