Since ancient times, people could unravel the sacramental meaning of the ornament, interpreting all the events of everyday life into a geometric code, but over time, such actions turn life into some kind of ongoing repeating events that lose their meaning. They become a usual ornament on the wallpapers, they cease to be noticeable to people, but at the same time those things do not stop living their own special life, expand in universal scale, clone themselves, and when they surround a man from all sides, he tries to unravel the meanings all over again.

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The Kazakh Funny Games exhibition in Esentai Gallery in the fashionable shopping center Esentai Mall does not just demonstrate Saule Dyusenbina's new projects - the location in the consumerist paradise conceptually supports the idea of ​​the susceptibility of the consciousness of a modern person to coding by popular everyday clichés, in the first place. Secondly, the location emphasizes the process of generating brands / patterns of an endless canvas of consumption, which in Dyusenbina's project become artifacts, which in turn can be replicated and sold for use in everyday life, at the same time being a unique artistic product. And thirdly, the shopping mall removes the seriousness of the discourses touched upon in the project, turning them into “funny games” ...

 

Yulia Sorokina