Exhibition of Lilia Balasanova and Sergey Kolevatykh "Adam and Eve were here"

April 12, the whole world celebrates Aviation and Cosmonautics Day. It was on this day that Yuri Gagarin, on the Vostok satellite, made the first space flight in the history of mankind, which became a powerful breakthrough in space exploration. This is a special day for science, the country and the whole world.

Interest in the topic of astronautics has not weakened at all, but has become an integral part of our everyday life. The development of new outer space, the launch of ultra-modern spacecraft, tourist flights to the moon and to Mars - all this became a reality in the 21st century.

The space theme and external paraphernalia began to be widely used in cinema, art and literature to create fantastic (but not very scientific) epics, starting from Star Wars and ending with numerous computer games.

Recently, it began to seem that the theme of the cosmos not only regained its acuity of meaning, but was also filled with new reflections. We ourselves unexpectedly found ourselves in the position of pioneers who have to master the surrounding space, which has now acquired a new, informational dimension. Perhaps we should reanalyze that literally dizzying rise that humanity has made in recent decades, and turn to the experience of those who took their first steps into other spaces.

This experience is very useful to us for the development of a new habitat, which is created before our eyes. Apparently, we will have to leave the aircraft created by our phantasmagoric imagination, descend to the earth of the newfound planet and leave the spacesuits in order to learn how to live and breathe again.

About the artists:

Lilia Balasanova and Sergey Kolevatykh , authors of the STUDIO 30 gallery project, live and work in Moscow. Their creative formation began at a time when they were still students of the art department of the Moscow Textile Institute (now the Textile Academy).

Lilia and Sergey - participants of more than 60 exhibitions and art projects in Russia and abroad. The works of artists are in private collections, state museum and exhibition funds of Russia, in the collections of such world-famous corporations as Deloitte, John Deere, Hyatt Development, Johnson & Johnson, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Hewlett-Packard, AG Capital, Central Properties and others, and also Sheremetyevo International Airport.