VIENNA, AUSTRIA.- Hilger Contemporary presents Anastasia Khoroshilova 'Russkie', on view through July 27, 2007. I called my biggest project, "Russkie." I want to bring together people of various nationalities and various religious confessions that, over time, arrived on the land of the Russian state from various other countries to live together in conditions shaped by history. History has already conducted so many trials and experiments with these people that constant anxiety has become their life and fate. That is why I immediately decided for myself: even in my arbitrary visual world, I will leave them be as they are. I do not wish to, nor do I have the right to, meddle with their reality and disturb them once again. At the conceptual level, they became my conception. Text by Anastasia Khoroshilova.
