Arseny Zhiliaev

The Room

Archstoyanie 2010. Summer

My interest in this project is  the moment of decomposition and dying. Furniture which has property gradually to become outdated and litter with itself space — serves in this case as a metaphor of human life and somewhat its manufacturer. I would like to make the project a monument to the human. Our caducity. The way of old furniture, in this case Soviet, is very similar to a way of the person. It is forced out for limits of the visible. On summer residences, on dustbins. As in our culture the death is forced out. Or memory of the past. Psychological types of people to whom it belonged are forced out. Having returned a tree to a tree and the earth, I would like to find symbolical application, to make original ritual of farewell.