Bringing together videos and plastic artworks, the exhibition explores a form of solitude shaped by history, language, and the conditions of modernity. “The exhibition is constructed like a story without a stable narrator, where each work acts as an autonomous chapter, linked to the others with recurring motifs.“ (Nassibakhon tairova about SOLO).
Through motifs such as the fall, repetition, the impossibility of return, and the fragility of language, the works form a fragmented narrative in which the body acts, repeats, and persists.
Evgeny (Jenia) Granilshchikov, born in 1985, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Clermont-Ferrand. He graduated from the Rodchenko School in 2013, and developed a practice that blends drawing, moving images, video installations, and performance. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013 and a finalist for the Innovation Prize in 2016, he notably presented Unfinished Film at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and the goEast Festival, where he received the Open Frame Prize (2016). In 2022, he received a grant from the French Embassy and worked on several films exploring the loss of home and collective, historical trauma, which are presented in his exhibition SOLO.