The stay at the art residence of the artists Artyom Go and Abram Rebrov was devoted to the study of the Vyksa urban landscape and the slowdown in its changes: features of an industrial city of the Soviet era, other traces of urban imperfection that are rapidly disappearing, for example, from cities with a population of over one million, but exist in some slowdown in Vyksa, as if time flows differently here, the development and change of the landscape is slowed down. The Void Breakers project is an attempt to delineate images of the urban environment through modern media and express the poetics of the chronotope, which artists first explore and then recreate in the museum hall.

The video work by Abram Rebrov captures the urban fabric, folds and sections of which connect the past and the present. In addition to the video, the conditionally "research" part of the project can be called an intervision, during which the artists conducted in-depth interviews with the Vyksa residents, as well as a speculative sociological survey in which they explore the impressions and triggers of the townspeople, drawn into the maelstrom of cultural events and changes in the cultural and urban areas that came from outside. landscape.

Artyom Go was interested in the urban environment to a lesser extent in the structure of its organization and to a greater extent in its unique plasticity. He collected a large amount of photographic material, which was helped to process by a neural network he created himself, which the artist trained for several years. The neural network into which the Vyksa landscapes were uploaded, trying to reproduce the author's method, created a number of compositions processed and completed by the artist. The result of the work was two series of large and small canvases, as well as objects resembling displays of electronic devices.

Both artists, working in different media, observe how the silent, rhythmic life of a small post-Soviet city, picking up the rhythms and inertia of the factory, tears apart art objects that do not fit well into this silence / emptiness. On the one hand, their appearance is unusual and therefore unpleasant; on the other hand, they create new narratives on the Vyksa stage, which can, in turn, create opportunities for new agents of change to organically introduce themselves and deform the urban fabric from within.

The project was implemented with the support of the Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation.