Park Volny. Terminal Zhukovsky

Is an experiment by Anya and Vitaly Cherepanovy to create an exhibition without the artists' physical presence. The exhibition includes archival works and immersive video installations created using recordings from CCTV systems. Exploring the phenomenon of ubiquitous surveillance, the artists consider possible modes of interaction in the age of remote communication.

"Park Volny" is an observation of how different interests and wills interact across physical, mental, and digital landscapes," the Cherepanovs explain. "It's a reflection on how to develop strategies for these interactions, allow ourselves to exercise our will in public space, and learn to accept and hear that of others." For the duration of the exhibition, the Park will take the form of a three-story space, accessed through a special terminal—a paratrooper professor named Zhukovsky. He represents the "spirit of the place" and represents the key to accessing the artists' ideas and works. Zhukovsky terminal processes, distributes, and reflects on these processes, involving every Park visitor in these processes.

The project's central motif is surveillance, which is explored in two large-scale video installations—"Around Nizhny Tagil" and "Security Guard in the Park." In the first, the artists present a chronicle of their hometown, Nizhny Tagil, filmed with a panoramic surveillance camera, where a pylon becomes the only anchor in a world of dizzying nightlife. The second simulates Moscow's Sokolniki Park, decorated with garlands of lights, where the security guard maintaining order is himself the object of surveillance.

The project culminates in the performative installation "Storage" on the gallery's third floor—a warehouse of packaged and partially unpacked works that have languished in Russia since the artists emigrated. Along with office workers, they are observed by CCTV cameras, which broadcast the footage live to the main exhibition. Spectators swap places with a security guard and observe the daily routine of cultural workers.