Rina Volnykh (b. 1997) is a Moscow-based visual artist who uses her practice to (de)(re)construct the legacy of her grandfather—a komsorg was in charge of ideological indoctrination—by turning methods of approaching ideology into artistic strategies. Rina explores the performative shift of television, which function switched from communicational to ritualistic, focusing her attention on television and its roles: the parental figure, educating the Russians on the capitalist living, and the main brace connecting heterogeneous groups into one civil society.
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Rise of the Machines, 2019. Found-footage 3-channel video installation
The video installation Rise of the Machines plays off the evening news format, imagining Ekaterina Andreeva, the iconic and irremovable Russian TV presenter, accept her cyborg nature and initiate a feminist revolution
Rise of the Machines, 2019
Let Them Speak, 2017
Let Them Speak explores the problem of linguistic subjectivity with the documentation of the experiment in which kids play with a dollhouse representing a primetime talk show studio
Time Subverted, 2017. Found-footage video
5 Demons of Milagros Esposito-Di Carlo de Miranda, 2020. Found-footage video installation
5 Demons of Milagros Esposito-Di Carlo de Miranda presents the plot of the epochal Argentinian TV series Muñeca Brava as a battle between two symbolic orders over the body of the female protagonist, exploiting possession films tropes
