Photo reportage from the exhibition 'DOG' by Viktor Timofeev at the Interstate Projects, New York

Interstate Projects is pleased to present DOG by Viktor Timofeev, an installation of colored pencil drawings, a mural, and a self-playing game; all arranged within a fictionalized bureaucratic setting.

Within the drawings, figures writhe above architectural plans, their bodies stacking together to form shapes loosely evoking recognizable infrastructures. The three channel self-playing game, Chat, presents an automated questionnaire being executed by two digital avatars: an asker and an answerer. Beginning with the Roman alphabet, the glyphs on two tabletop monitors are systematically scrambled, quickly mutating beyond recognition. Hanging overhead, a third screen displays the same alphabet arranged around a clock face, its hands illustrating the process of encryption in real time. Stuck in a loop, the dialogue is effectively robbed of its potential for true interactivity: one of the accompanying keyboards is broken, and the other has a single key jammed. The game is left to play itself, endlessly feeding identical responses to increasingly illegible questions. DOG appears to have been abandoned by its users, whose abrupt departure is frozen in time.

Viktor Timofeev (b. 1984 Riga, Latvia) is currently living and working in New York. Timofeev has recently had solo exhibitions at MX Gallery in New York, Karlin Studios in Prague, kim? Contemporary Art Center in Riga and Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York. Group exhibitions include The Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Den Frie in Copenhagen, Stroom Den Haag in The Hague and Bozar in Brussels.

Artist : Viktor Timofeev
Exhibition Title : DOG
Venue : Interstate Projects, New York
Date : March 5th 2021 – April 11th 2021
Photography : all images copyright and courtesy of Interstate Projects

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Chat, 2021, 3-channel custom software, furniture, modified keyboards. Duration: infinite but repeats a cycle every 5 minutes

Chat, 2021, 3-channel custom software, furniture, modified keyboards. Duration: infinite but repeats a cycle every 5 minutes

Chat, 2021, 3-channel custom software, furniture, modified keyboards. Duration: infinite but repeats a cycle every 5 minutes

Chat, 2021, 3-channel custom software, furniture, modified keyboards. Duration: infinite but repeats a cycle every 5 minutes

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

The Living Room, 2021, colored pencil on paper

The Living Room, 2021, colored pencil on paper

The Baltic Huddle, 2021, Colored pencil on paper

The Accumulation Plan, 2021, Colored pencil on paper

The Human Bridge, 2021, Colored pencil on paper

The Nurtured Floor, 2021, Colored pencil on paper

Exit Stage Right, 2021, Mural on wall, pastel

Exit Stage Right, 2021, Mural on wall, pastel

Exit Stage Right, 2021, Mural on wall, pastel