Ольга Чернышева / Olga Chernysheva - Марш / March (2005)

Walking around with a video camera, you inevitably become an onlooker or witness to processes that other people are involved in. Some are planting trees, others are building a new shopping center, and others have become walking sandwiches. You can see all kinds of things going on in the streets! The flaneur with the video camera stops in surprise and tries to understand, to investigate thoroughly what is going on, trying to allow the aesthetic form of reality to emerge like “The Man with the Camera“**, simply to fix something extraneous “just in case.“ Not every recording can become a document of its time. It is hard to count on any observation’s capacity for symbolization. Allegories and attributes do not grow wild, but are products of the laboratory. Instead, all one needs is an intimation, a hint, a moment of life, and not all of it “as it is“, in order to later use this small, embryonic piece to create an artistic form.