The City DNA Installation at the INTERNI 2017 Exhibition
Università degli Studi di Milano
Sergei Tchoban, Sergey Kuznetsov, Agniya Sterligova
Illustrations: Ksenia Nam, Victoria Kosareva
Film director: Darya Kychina
Photo: Vasily Bulanov
Project implementation: Velko group
This installation was designed for an inner courtyard of Milan University and built for the annual art installation exhibition organized by INTERNI Magazine. 2017's main topic is the opposition of material/immaterial notions. The installation consists of two 6-meter high and 12-meter long plates intersecting at a right angle and dividing the space of the yard into four sectors. One surface of each plate is covered with a mirror, while the other is covered with LED screens; the combination of video and its reflection creates a unique narrative.
Four video projections are dedicated to an analysis of the modern megacity's image though an "art-rendering" of its structural data (general outlay, altitude indexes, architecture of key objects). Four cities – Hong Kong, New York, Moscow and Milan – are split into four parts and rebuilt as a fantasy collage/unique print, or rather the city's DNA.