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The Moscow Museum of Modern Art announces Alienation Mechanism, a new exhibition held by the MMOMA Education Center as part of the Collection. Vantage Point program. The project addresses one of the founding cultural myths of the 20th century 鈥� the phenomenon of alienation and entropy, detachment and estrangement.

Alienation has a rich historical and philosophical record. From antiquity to our time this concept changed depending on the context, social system and its problems. In Russian philosophy the study of the alienation phenomenon belongs to the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The exhibition鈥檚 starting point was a conversation between Andrei Monastyrsky and Josef Bakshtein about the methodological specificity of Moscow conceptualism. In their dialogue, the mechanism of alienation is mentioned as a significant element of its artistic language and interpreted as the immediate, extreme alienation from its own production, be it a work of art or a simple, everyday utterance.

This meaning is interpreted differently by artists of the post-war period and contemporary authors: it becomes either generalized or, on the contrary, aggravated, where this mechanism turns out to be a means to escape or isolate oneself from circumstances which are too difficult and intolerable. All stages of development and various interpretations of this phenomenon become the key object of consideration in the project on display.