Sat-Сад – an exhibition of visual art by Vasili Lefter and Tatiana Fiodorova at National Museum of Art of Moldova
Sat-Сад – an exhibition of visual art by Vasili Lefter and Tatiana Fiodorova
National Museum of Art of Moldova (115, 31 August 1989 Street, Chisinau 2012 Moldova)
program
Opening – Friday, 7 July 2023, 16:00
The exhibition is open daily from July 7 to August 6, 2023, 16.00-18.00 (except Mondays)
Talks with the artist Tatiana Fiodorova will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays from 16:00-18:00 for the duration of the exhibition.
Exhibition Sat-Сад – an exhibition of visual art by Vasili Lefter and Tatiana Fiodorova
The National Art Museum of Moldova opens the exhibition Sat – Сад – a dialogue in time and space between two generations of Moldovan artists, father and daughter, Vasili Lefter and Tatiana Fiodorova.
The dramaturgy of the exhibition space is built on intertwining stories that form a non-linear narrative about the Moldovan village, man’s place in nature and the world as a whole. The title of the exhibition Sat-Сад brings together two interlingual homonyms that sound roughly the same but have different meanings. For the artist, the words SAT (Romanian) and САД (Russian) have the same meaning. For the artist, a village is a garden.
In the impending Anthropocene era, with the accelerated development of technology, the pace of life in cities has become increasingly intense, resulting in stress and tension. Added to all this are pandemics, self-isolation and self-policing, which have contributed to this change. At the same time, many people began to consider moving from the urban to the rural environment, where the intensity of stress and pace are lower and the freedom of movement is greater.
One of the stories in the exhibition tells the story of the rural life of the artist Tatiana Fiodorova, now in her third year. The desire to move to the country appeared for the artist right at the time of the lockdown and was conceived as a way to relax through outdoor yoga. Later, it smoothly evolved into the practice of growing and observing plants, learning about the cycles of nature and the interconnectedness of the individual with the whole—an ecosystem where everything is interconnected.
Another story takes us back to the 1970s, a time when the artist’s father was actively working and creating. The exhibition presents a series of photographic portraits of rural residents. The two stories in the exhibition periodically intertwine to create unique collaborative works.
A father and daughter work together, where images of villagers from the past, merging with the plant world, transport the viewer to a unique space that is beyond place and time. In these works, the past and the present form a harmonious and mystical fusion of two eras, reminding us of our roots and our connection with nature, showing that even in the contemporary world, we are inseparable from the past and our environment. Practicing rural life and agriculture, the artist gives the image of the peasant and his house an important role, celebrating the peasant’s deep connection with the land and nature.
The exhibition “Sat – Cад ” is, on the one hand, an artistic research that combines the symbolic garden with contemporary political and social concepts and themes, which offers an artistic interpretation of the garden as a metaphor for human nature, society and human relationships. On the other hand, it is the creative laboratory of the artist, where she experiences, creates and rethinks the contemporary life of the village.
Vasili Lefter (1943-1982) is an unknown Soviet artist, designer and photographer from Moldova. During his lifetime, his works were never exhibited. In 2018, the author’s series of photographs was exhibited as part of the group show Pure Passion at the Photo Triennale Ray 2018 in Frankfurt, supported by the Opelvillen Rüsselsheim Art and Culture Foundation in Rüsselsheim (2018).
Tatiana Fiodorova (1976) – artist, curator and teacher – addresses contemporary political and social themes in her creations. Certain areas of the artist’s practice are contextualised through the works of her father, the artist Vasilii Lefter, who died prematurely and left a large archive of notebooks, sketches, drawings, diaries, manuals, posters and documentary photographs.
The Sat-Сад exhibition is a continuation of the Сад project, based on the artistic study of the family archive that the artist inherited from her father. The Сад project was presented at exhibitions in Romania and Poland: Cад multimedia installation in Iași, Romania (2011); Multimedia installation САД- GARDEN /The Journey to the East at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (2011); “In search of the social body of the Soviet artist”/ Project Salon, MNAC Annex Building, Bucharest (2012); When a book becomes a message / Museum of the Future, Bucharest, Romania (2016).
Tatiana Fiodorova (1976) was born and lives in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Works with installations, archive, photography, performances, public art and artist books. His works were exhibited at the the Art Encounters Biennale in Timisoara (2019), the “Danube Dialogues” Festival in Novi Sad (2018); Biennial of Contemporary Photography and Moving Image from Iasi (2016), Delhi Photography Festival (2015); the parallel program of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015); The project fair at Viennafair (2013); Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011); Peripheral 8: Romanian Contemporary Art Biennale (2008); LANGENZERSDORF Museum in Austria (2021); The National Art Museum of Moldova in Chisinau (2019, 2021, 2023), the MoMa Museum of Modern Art in Baku (2019), the State Silk Museum in Tbilisi (2018); Bucharest Museum of Contemporary Art (2015); freiraum Q21 International; Museums Quartier in Vienna, Kalmar Art Museum; MOCAK Krakow, Neues Museum Weimar; Docks en Seine in Paris; and in galleries like the House of Zemstvo in Chisinau (2022, 2023); Borderline Art Space from Iasi (2018); Rajco Mamuzic Gift Collection Art Gallery in Novi Sad (2018); Czech Center in Bucharest (2016); Karlín Studios in Prague; Zacheta Project Room in Warsaw; Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna; Constitution Hill in Johannesburg; apARTe Gallery from Iași; Alert Studio from Bucharest; Arsenal Gallery in Białystok; The National Museum Complex of Culture and Art “Mystetskyi Arsenal” in Kyiv; Center for Research of Visual and Political Culture in Kyiv; «ЦЭХ» from Minsk, Welch School Galleries from Atlanta (USA); Garage Center of Contemporary Culture in Moscow; Short Cuts Gallery from Namur; WG KUNST from Amsterdam; M’ARS Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow; NCCA National Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow; Donau University in Krems; Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem; Zpatiu Gallery in Chisinau, etc.
The exhibition Sat-Сад is part of the project Drifting Bureau of Art Research, funded by the Swiss Government. Organiser Art Platforma. Partner: National Art Museum of Moldova; media partners: Artploshadka; Locals.
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