Supporting Structure is a series of artistic projects at the Narkomfin Building which brings together its hundred-year history and contemporary Russian artists.
Invited artists are asked to study the Narkomfin Building inside and out and learn about the biographies of its creators and residents. However, the works created are not intended to be an exhaustive illustration of historical activity but to follow the principles of continuity and independence set out by Moisei Ginzburg, one of the creators of the Narkomfin Building, in the book Style and Epoch (1924). According to Ginzburg, «the law of continuity economizes on the creative ideas and inventiveness of the artist and increases their experience and skill, and the law of independence is a driving factor in providing creativity with healthy, young sap, filling it with the sharpness of modernity, without which art is no longer art.» The projects in the series Supporting Structure bring together the artifacts and achievements of the past and contemporary artistic methods and practices.
The first project in the program is the installation Color Transition by Katya Ryblova, which explores the phenomenon of synesthesia and the influence of color on a person’s internal world.
Series curator: Elmira Minkina
