ASYMPTOTE solo-exhibition currently at @alisonmilneco in Toronto Canada. On view until 29Th October, visit by appointment, all work available for sale✨ Asymptote (created in 2015) uses architectural sites that are authentic to the era of socialism. Places, former symbols of power and greatness, are elevated in order to make the person feel small. Today they stand still, stripped of essential purpose, abandoned or forgotten like gravestones of their former “glory”. Asymptote merges past and present, by reflecting on one at the time of the other. At the basis of the project lies a historical foundation that collaborates with a fictional scenario to blur the lines between reality and memory. Authentic testimonies and archive materials are reinterpreted by the contemporary digital language of fiction based on truth. The goal is not only to reflect on the past but most importantly to address the current state of (post-soviet satellite)society and its values. The project deals with several topics such as paranoia, surveillance, uniformity, normalization, or censorship, all being part of this cultural legacy and having lasting effects on actual situations, thinking, and behavior. All body form in the project is folded within the space to shape a coherent geometrical composition, a symbol of the regime itself. People create a pattern. Each one is stripped of its iwn individuality to become a unified form, creating a society where every difference is ananomaly in the system. #asymptote #alisonmilnegallery