I created these costumes from cine film for a project by the jazz saxophonist Vladimir Chekasin. This project debuted in Moscow at the Central House of Artists on Krimskoy embankment. The collection was dedicated to the centenary of cinema. Below I reproduce an article by art critic Alexander Sokolyansky.
In the frame!!! Moscow artist Sergei Tyryshkin marked the centenary of film with the creation of a metaphysical costume collection. In creating his unique work the artist remembered something that is always forgotten, the most insignificant, the most material, what most directly supports the worldwide “dream factory” in this simple poor life. The simple fabric of being, humbly translucent, patiently and eternally running with unimaginable speed; twenty four images a second. Film, flying between the illuminating ray and the lucid event. Film, dress, flesh. No-one had thought about this. There is a natural change of frames, a choice of versions, the montage of attractions. In the frame!!! Roland Barthes, trying to grasp the miracle of film-making, froze in contemplation of the “filmic” – in the scrutiny of an individual frame, speaking about the film better than the whole film. Film, dress, flesh. The loss of virginity. The acquisition of womanhood. It couldn’t be simpler: the body, wrapped in film. The body swathed. The body which, fastidiously punning – does not allow itself to be “framed”. Film, dress, flesh. A slow coming to light – body art, as the absen...
