Duration: 20 April–14 June 2015
Event type: Group Show
Organizer: A. Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
Venue: MOMMA, Moscow, Russia

The sixth graduation exhibition of the Rodchenko School continues the series of previous ones. But the socio-political context forces us to perceive this ‘normal’ event in a situation where the very notion of normality is called into question.

what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say

This phrase is uttered with different rhythm, different voices, with different intonations by the actors of the theatrical crowd when it is necessary to depict the noise of the crowd on the stage. Diploma theses, which seem to be united by nothing but the formal framework of the end of the educational process, repeat with painful persistence the same questions: why does everything go on as it is? What will happen tomorrow? And will there be a tomorrow? What is expected of me? How do I react to it? Why do I do nothing? What is my role? How should I act?

Today, these questions are no longer rhetorical. It paralyses the course of the usual creative work, making the artist's smallest gesture the result of a political choice: to remain a statistic observer, to try to turn away from the drama being played out, or to intervene in its course. Our works in one way or another reflect the state of this forced choice, creating a polyphony of possible answers.

what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say