Polina Kanis. Exhibition: New Flag

14.08.2013 On August 17, at 12:00 an exhibition of the young artist Polina Kanis will open at New Holland’s art gallery. It will feature a video installation ‘New Flag’ – a diptych made of a video and photographs - in which a woman, while horseback riding, holds a flag in her hand and sits in the traditional victory pose. The video demonstrates the process of picture-making: the dressed-up- young woman tries to ride the horse with the help of an assistant, but she is repeatedly falling off and starting again. This work examines the relationship between the consolidation of any ideological image and the mechanism of its creation: the video heroes are frankly indifferent to what is happening and only perform their specific function, which contrasts with the perfect result pictured in the photograph. Consequently, the video questions the validity of any power constructs, between superficial necessity and inherent charging, which incommensurably accentuate the difference between the worlds of the real and the ideal.