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Tatiana Trouvé: Desire Lines 

To each of these cylinders are attached metal labels on which were written two short phrases: the first describes the way through the park (From West 63rd Street to Columbus Circle or From Mariners Gate to Summit Rock, NY) and the second is the name of the historical walk. Based on history, literature, art, music and politics, Truve explores walks around the world that have taken place since the late 1850s, when the Central Park was built. Depending on the knowledge of the viewer, the phrases may or may not be recognizable, but for each these phrases will become something significant. In addition to the legendary marches, such as Selma to Montgomery, for example, I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash) and The Lovers: Great Wall Walk (Marina Abramovich and Ulay). While the installation itself is huge and makes you think of it by itself, its experience is enriched through an exhibition, which, by the way, was a few minutes walk from the hotel.

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Hamish Fulton: Walking Artist

Fulton is ranked among artists working in the genre of land art. Fulton himself defines himself as a "walking artist". In such walks of his works) nature is not represented as a subconscious "other", which must be conquered by the anthropocene. Nature exists in conjunction with man, the natural landscape helps to escape from the hustle and bustle of life. Fulton, traveling through the desert, points to a palpable lack of adventure, unintended experiences and contact with nature in the lives of most people.

In 1973, after traveling more than 1,000 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head, Scotland to Land's End, England, Fulton decided to "create works based on the experience of individual walks." Specifically from modest materials such as paper, wooden rulers and photographs, his designs are consistent with the belief that these walks should interact directly with the environment, but leave no traces on it. Appeals to political justice are also traced in Fulton's work, which corresponds to his commitment to individual and artistic freedom.

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Loss of time. Walking

Fragmentation and frame of vision are the main themes of the series "Loss of time. Walking". Each such walk is an attempt to build a system in incompatible with each other plots. The main link is the missing time, which forms an undefined construction of images and graphic elements. The tradition of collage technology asserts a split in the perception of reality, in which the imaginary is intertwined with the real, the past with the present, the archive becomes a photostream, the incoherent becomes meaningful and vice versa. Such fluctuations from meaning to absurdity appeal to modernity. Everything becomes an image of itself, the real things are transformed into flat images. The human body is absent in the photographs, goes into the mechanics of the symbol, text, mathematical meaning. The image of a person translates signs, but not the person of a person. Personality is buried under the weight of photoreports and documentation, everything becomes an archive of memory.