Marina Chernikova

chernikova Works with photo and video technologies. Contributed to a special project at the 2nd MoscowBiennale (2007), the festival Fashion and Style in Photography (2005) and international video-art festivals. Included in the collections of the Tretyakov, the Moscow House of Photography and the MoscowMuseum of Contemporary Art.

Love Puzzle-6

The video Love Puzzle-6 refers to the notion of a “game”. There are board and computer games, love games, the playing of actors, the game of fate. These games are known to all.
Fragmented images of bodies appear and disappear on a screen, creating various compositions. The viewer watches the players, their repeated attempts to assemble the love puzzle. But each time the almost completed combination breaks apart. And again, an invisible hand begins to put together the picture of happiness, playing until bored. And the players turn out to be just elements of the game, carelessly dumped in a heap until the next round.

Марина Черникова. Любовь Пазл 6. 2007. Видео. Сourtesy автор / Marina Chernikova. Love Puzzle 6. 2007. Video. 8’00”. Сourtesy author