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Ностальгия в проектах российских художников: утопическое измерение
This paper is dedicated to nostalgia in contemporary Russian art from 2010 to 2025. The author identifies a distinct strategy within this trend: the utopian dimension. This means projecting an ideal of social order onto different historical moments. What makes this strategy specific? The research draws on the theoretical concepts of Svetlana Boym (nostalgia), Zygmunt Bauman (retrotopia), and Hermann Lübbe (the “contraction of the present”). The author examines various approaches to the utopian dimension through exhibitions by Alexey Gintovt (“Moscow-Center”), Taisiya Korotkova (“Dark Forest”), Pavel Otdelnov (“Industrial Zone”), and Danini (“Drive D:”). The analysis also focuses on two major projects: Sergey Sonin and Elena Samorodova’s “Utopia and Uchronia” and Rinat Voligamsi’s “Dvoyegorsk”. Using Svetlana Boym’s typology of restorative and reflective nostalgia, the author defines the specificity of this strategy. It involves a mediated influence on the future through the way artists work with the past.