Oleg Kostyuchenko’s curatorial project is dedicated to the post-Soviet art scene and the Armenian genocide. It deals with global issues that must be revealed, about the truth that finally emerges. He presents in his project «Talent for Export» five contemporary Belarusian artists united within one country. The word «export» originates from Latin word «exporto» which literally means «to send goods and services from a port of a country or a state». The artist raises the question of borders and self-realization in the language of Modern Art. It is an attempt to find zones and regions that do not carry an asocial burden, an attempt at fundamental transformation, demanding reaction and response.
«Talent for Export» is the eternal indignation of life’s nature against any attempts to order the world, it is the rebelling of wish against ban, happenstance against law, possibility against reality, illusion against verity. It is an attempt to blow up non-individual values, to turn into dust any discursive ways of cognition (science, philosophy, art, literature) because they are poisoned by rationality, – and it is all to erase the line that separates inner from outer, dream from reality, conscious from unconscious, to hold eternity in a moment and thus to take existence back to its primeval purity, wholeness and unity.
«Talent for Export» represents following artists:
Oleg Kostyuchenko (painting, installation)
Antonina Slobodchikova (video-art)
