In October 2022, Alexey Korsi showed a series of eight objects titled Irresistible Forces at GES-2 House of Culture.
They embodied the artist’s major interest in the unexpressed, which exists at the border of the seen and the cognizable and is also inseparably linked to the image. Here, Korsi refers to the ideas of the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who for over fifty years developed his own system of describing the human psyche through the triad Imaginary–Symbolic–Real («the real is the impossible, that which is impossible to imagine or represent» — psychoanalyst Vyacheslav Grizdak). Korsi, who trained as an architect and an artist, combines analytical tenacity and an attraction to a romantic type of poetic aestheticization. His objects thus have a particular magnetism. They are subtle, attracting an infinite number of interpretations. During the meeting at Garage, Alexey will talk about how he sees things based on the series Irresistible Forces and will also describe the projects he is working on now.
Alexey was prompted to make the series Irresistible Forces by a metal plate in one of the walkways at Belorusskaya metro station that conceals but does not prevent a leak. As the artist wrote in the booklet for the exhibition, «In a certain sense, such a redundant, empty structure that does not solve the problem it was built to resolve still retains a function, albeit a symbolic one. Such shiny surfaces can be seen as akin to Jacques Lacan’s Reality, which, like a protective veil, keeps the unbearable Real from view. Reality puts in place a symbolic order, creates an illusion of control, of a world that is clear, logical, and just. Wherever the eye might fall, one sometimes feels as though before us are only appearances, shining crusts concealing unstoppable streams of water that move endlessly through the dark.»
