60 × 105 cm
Acrylic, hardboard, LEDs
V–A–C Sreda online magazine continues its three-month programme devoted to space and its reflection in culture, art, and the utopian dreams of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this issue, we publish a work by the artist Igor Anisiforov, a participant in the exhibition The Sunset Fired a Hundred Suns at GES-2 House of Culture.
The unidentified flying object depicted in Anisiforov’s painting hovers above Mount Kailash, a sacred place in several Eastern religions, simultaneously resembling a fantastic cosmic mycelium and a manned vehicle. The turquoise glow emanating from the mandala at the centre of the object illuminates the pyramidal structure and unites two spaces: Celestial (technological, interplanetary) and Terrestrial (natural).
The cosmogonic images of planetary and plant visions are built around the artist’s reflections on the possibility of life spreading in the universe and on possible contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. A fibre optic cable with LEDs is stretched out around the perimeter of the ship, complementing the technocentric, semantic component of the work.