PROVMYZA

ProvMyza Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov. The group was created in 1993. The artists’ works have been shown at the 51st Venetian Biennale, the Russian Pavilion; the “KunstFilmBiennale”, the Ludwig Museum, Köln; “Hors Pistes”, George Pompidou Centre, Paris; “Biennale of Moving Images”, the Saint-Gervais Centre, Geneva and others. In 2009 their video-work “Despair” won the “Tiger Award” at the 38th International Film Festival in Rotterdam.

Pitter-Patter
At the base of the story lies the famous photograph by the well-known English photographer of the 19th century Henri Peach Robinson. The action develops around a sick girl lying on a bed and a crowd of gapers, who have come to bid farewell to the dying one.
Sunlight and wind, appearing in the room, allow one to see what is going on through emotionally existential and poetic associations. The end is close. But the life process has not finished. It continues in the form of water which is slowly filling the bed of the dying one and is transforming into a continuous pitter-patter.

In yet another of their artistic studies the artists touch upon the very nature of the mechanism of communication, expressed through the original visual aspect, contact performance and an effective model of communication. Their creative expression touches upon such a vital problem of Contemporary Art as the loss of the lyricism and the poetics of artistic form, more and more often they focus the attention on the human as an object, requiring universal empathy and contemplation.

ПРОВМЫЗА. Капель. 2009. Видео. Courtesy автор/ PROVMYZA. Pitter-Patter. 2009. Video. Courtesy authors