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“Everyone will be helped. Today I will try to relieve your pain completely or partially. And of course, all body functions will be corrected. You can put water or creams in front of the screen, and they will be charged to heal you”. — Allan Chumak, Moscow TV channel, 1993
In 1990, in the USSR, against the backdrop of liberal reforms, the “Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” was adopted. This law actually abolished the bans on rituals and the dissemination of any religious information that had been in place for decades.
In a matter of months, the amount of officially published religious literature and number of religious organizations increased exponentially. In addition to traditional religions, this “renaissance” affected the occultism and various New Age teachings that had previously existed underground. A distinctive feature of this new religiosity was the fact that the social and political instability of the late USSR, which increased dramatically in the first years after its collapse, was instrumentalized, among other things, by new to this space religious and occult ideas.
Circulations of manuals on practical magic numbered in the tens of thousands; on prime-time television, “healers” and “gurus” conducted sessions of remote healing through the screen. For a large part of the population, escapism has become the only possible survival strategy.
In 1990, in the USSR, against the backdrop of liberal reforms, the “Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” was adopted. This law actually abolished the bans on rituals and the dissemination of any religious information that had been in place for decades.
In a matter of months, the amount of officially published religious literature and number of religious organizations increased exponentially. In addition to traditional religions, this “renaissance” affected the occultism and various New Age teachings that had previously existed underground. A distinctive feature of this new religiosity was the fact that the social and political instability of the late USSR, which increased dramatically in the first years after its collapse, was instrumentalized, among other things, by new to this space religious and occult ideas.
Circulations of manuals on practical magic numbered in the tens of thousands; on prime-time television, “healers” and “gurus” conducted sessions of remote healing through the screen. For a large part of the population, escapism has become the only possible survival strategy.
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 Installation view |
 Pavel Polshchikov, AAAAAAAAA is always for Alan, video (03:45 min), 2023 Link↗ |
 Pavel Polshchikov, AAAAAAAAA is always for Alan, video (03:45 min), 2023 Link↗ |
 Installation view |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №1, paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №1, paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №2, paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №2, paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, If you want to jump into the abyss, then take a parachute just in case. “Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts” by Donald Michael Kraig, paper, epoxy resin, agate, steel chains, liners, fabric, 1991-2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, If you want to jump into the abyss, then take a parachute just in case (detail). “Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts” by Donald Michael Kraig, paper, epoxy resin, agate, steel chains, liners, fabric, 1991-2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, If you want to jump into the abyss, then take a parachute just in case (detail). “Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts” by Donald Michael Kraig, paper, epoxy resin, agate, steel chains, liners, fabric, 1991-2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, There is no need to endure thirst, especially if it is thirst for knowledge, plastic bottle, water, paper, uv-printing, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, There is no need to endure thirst, especially if it is thirst for knowledge, plastic bottle, water, paper, uv-printing, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №3, paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №3, paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, Tablet №3 (detail), paper, epoxy resin, liners, 2023 |