Everyday we have interesting discussions with visitors who ask us a variety of questions. The most common remains the one about why we chose laundry as the subject for the tags, although that is shifting a bit. The more tags that people write, the more visitors are seemingly wanting to debate more philosophical questions. We’ve been getting involved in more discussions about whether or not this work is art. Someone even wondered whether we are artists. We are really enjoying the openness and frankness with which visitors and other exhibitors approach us.
One visitor asked us how on earth we thought up the project. Roxane replied that it is a union of each of our works and that we made it especially for Dialogi. Our visitor, who had spent some time reading the tags, was struck by how diverse and stimulating people’s reflections were. We have been very touched by conversations like this one and by how enthusiastically visitors have contributed to the project.
We like the humour that so many people are revealing in their tags both here and in Shetland.
The Dialogi team of organisers are here at the Manezh every day, ready to help us. They are from left, Larisa Skobkina, Curator, Nikolai Vasiliev, and Alyona Voinova.
Sometimes it feels like our work is a tourist attraction, because people have been taking photos of each other in front of our work as well as while we are all working.