Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend
Nikita Shokhov
Osnova gallery, Moscow
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- Title
- Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend
- Gallery
- Osnova gallery, Moscow
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 1 h 15 min
- Format & Technical
VR 360 film with interactive elements: executable for Windows 64-bit and tethered Meta Quest headset
The audience puts on a VR headset and enters the poetic intimate world of memories and thoughts of a woman.
This story bridges cinematic and theatre experiences and employs gaze-interactive visual poetry. Creators aim to reveal the harmful impact of white supremacy on the consciousness level. Narrative unfolds in the subconscious state between dream and wake. In her childhood the protagonist meets a girl and they become close friends but then the girl suddenly disappears. Event dramatically affects the protagonist’s life: she cannot escape the fantasies about her friend. Later, she moves to a big city to model for painters and then makes a successful career as an artist. However, getting older, she still struggles with obsessive ideas about her childhood friend. Eventually, she realizes that the stress of experiencing society’s oppression at a young age forced her to extinguish her black identity to be accepted by an oppressive society.
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Nikita Shokhov is an artist and filmmaker born in Russia and based in the United States. In his art practice, he studies the human condition in the 21st century by applying philosophical agendas, immersive technologies, and documentary approach. His AR experience ‘Dragzina‘ was officially selected at VRE22 Virtual Reality Experience (Italy), and Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece). His VR film ‘Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend‘ was officially selected at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories (Canada) and was a finalist at Cannes XR Development Showcase (France). He is the recipient of the World Press Photo (Netherlands). Studied immersive environments at Virginia Tech; experimental filmmaking at California Institute of the Arts; documentary photography at Rodchenko Art School Moscow; and worked in The Watermill Center theater residency (New York). He had shows in Spring/Break Art Show (LA and NYC), GRAD Gallery (London), ACM IMX, Manifesta Biennale (St. Petersburg).
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Osnova gallery
- Address
- 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok 1/6 , 105120, Moscow, Russia
- Phone
- +79 268 873 987
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- Website
- osnovagallery.com
Osnova is a young and dynamic Moscow art space founded in 2014 that provides a vital platform for emerging artists from countries worldwide. Osnova strive to bring new artist names to the forefront of the contemporary art scene, and engage extensively with the local community integrating it to the international art scene.