Valera and Natasha Cherkashin

TRAVEL AS ART: MONGOLIA . ART PROJECT "INTERSECTION"

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A group of international and Mongolian artists created a series of installations for the international art project "Intersection". Their concepts were diverse, fresh and exciting.
Valera and Natasha Cherkashin's installation-performance was entitled "Supremacist Meditation". It consisted of four black and red squares made of newspaper "Pravda". The first square was orientated towards the East, the second towards the West, the third pointed up to the Sky and the fourth was on the ground.

GREAT BRITAIN

JAPAN

GERMAN ATLANIS

MONGOLIA

Underwater Performances

Valera Cherkashin, in Mongolian national costume, shot arrows from a Mongolian bow through the squares to the East, West and, finally, into the Sky. Then the Cherkashins joined the three squares together with red ribbons. This was meant to symbolise the unification of Eastern and Western wisdom and their ascension into the Sky. Through meditation this wisdom would return as universal truth… 
Finally, the Cherkashins set fire to their installation and destroyed it as Mandela.

The wind blows incessantly in Mongolia. The next day Valera and Natasha created another action - "Flying black square" in the form of flying a kite.

On their last day in Mongolia the Cherkashins visited the Gobi desert. They have had the idea of doing an exhibition in a desert for a long time. They wanted to plant some of their newspaper flowers there. At last they had the chance to make it happen!

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