curated by Olesya Turkina

Olesya Turkina
Curator

Artists
Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Zoe Beloff, Anna Jermolaewa, Pavel Pepperstein

History repeats itself twice, first as a tragedy, then as a farce

The title of the show refers to the most quoted and misquoted phrase from Karl Marx’s “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” in which he refers to Hegel’s idea about important historical events and persons appearing twice.1 The show presents artists who are working with the carnivalesque character of history in these changing political circumstances. Revolution creates pathos that attempts to conquer the future – Cronus swallows his children, and the counterrevolution vomits back time – anorexia caused by the fear of the overwhelming return of the living dead.