Ksenia Voy Kheninen and Zherbin are marginalized artists without formal training in arts coming from two different fields and skillsets united by background, trash enthusiasm, and shared interest in cultural anthropology, pop-culture phenomena, and humanism. Zherbin is a Karelian noise artist, musician, builder of electronic and acoustic instruments, and a figure in the margins of culture. Ksenia is an artist and craftswoman who creates sculptures that combine clay, textile, found materials and objects, paint, embroidery, metal, glass and text. Her work is heavily fueled by personal experience with neurodivergence, queerness, and foreignness.
At the festival we’ll see an installation titled Plants, which is their first collaborative public project. Plants is space turned into an artificial sounding garden; AI art without the AI; clay, sound waves, and found objects grown into interactive electronic plants. Plants explores sculptures as immortal artificial objects that are reminiscent of the organic world. They are commemorating the time when technology is relentlessly trying to replicate the mortals.
Curators’ comments: “The artist duo’s interactive sound sculptures possess sensuality, sensitivity, and playfulness. In this gently participatory installation, visitors can enter into a dialogue with the sculptures through movement and touch, thereby influencing the resulting soundscape.”
