Synchronized actions 2018

Curator: Okay, I'm looking at Danil Nemirovsky’s "Synchronized Actions," made in ink and drawing in 2018, and I am getting such a Dada vibe. Is it just me, or is there something playfully subversive about it? Editor: Definitely feeling the rebellious energy! It's dark and absurd but strangely magnetic. The monument looming in the background suggests something ancient and immutable, while all these figures around are so very... animated, but trapped. What do you make of all those disembodied arms and tools floating around them? Curator: For me, the arms speak to a kind of blind cooperation. Like, they're moving together, but towards what? Are they building something glorious or digging their own grave? And the tools… those shovels especially are just so ubiquitous; what does it mean when the tool of creation or perhaps even destruction just blends into the overall structure? Editor: Interesting. Shovels are obviously about digging and excavating, right? Revealing what's beneath, maybe the unconscious? But here, yeah, they're like structural supports—almost decorative. There's also this really old conveyor belt on one of the buildings with brushes—are we just regurgitating older imagery and creating meaning out of thin air? I also see the vague, looming face on the high building that to me could either represent some higher power but also the public eye. Curator: Ha! The public eye squishing everything underneath it and giving everyone an existential crisis, for sure! But seriously, there is definitely something about being trapped. Each figure’s trajectory is dictated by something unseen; but who is deciding that trajectory and where does the monument stand into the conversation? Editor: It definitely anchors the image. That almost Greco-Roman face feels stoic, unmoved by all this frantic activity. It’s interesting how it simultaneously asserts a grand history, while these very small actors just perform in a cycle. And maybe this synchronicity isn’t liberation or cooperation, it is, maybe a ritual dance around power that doesn’t even acknowledge our existence. Curator: I agree! And rituals can be playful and yet terribly grim! Nemirovsky’s creation dances with a delicate and perhaps ironic foot in this landscape. Editor: This drawing is so playful! There’s such an element of critical self-awareness blended within. A perfect capture of our current era.