YOU SHOULD DIG RIGHT HERE, 2020

Zoom performance @ Khodynka Gallery

Chthonian profile:
Western: ♋︎ [Cancer]
Slavic: Veles
Chinese: 庚子[Metal Rat] 

What if you start digging right here and now? Could you end up puncturing the surface of the Turkish seaside beach with your shovel, where the Kremlin-like hotel sunburns its brightness away? Perhaps you’ll float up the Iguazu falls? Or would you prefer to tear through the plastic snow of the Australian Zoo penguin pool and join in the game of nature imitation? Aren’t you surprised that these options do not appear so absurd to you? What about 5 months ago? “Absolute mythology is absolute existence, a kind of existence, which has achieved the mythical state. To unwrap this mythology is to expose each step of the journey from the absolute state of being and the absolute mythology, its development.” – Alexey Losev, Myth Dialectics, published in 1930. The Mainline Group invites you to stick your shovels into the space between the waves of the pandemic and embark on a super-mythical trip to analyse the post-COVID condition of distance.