ALIEN COMMITMENT — Anna Bochkova at Pavilion, Hamburg

Submission
July 15, 2023

Alien Commitment

Anna Bochkova at Pavilion of hfbk, Hamburg
June 28 — July 16, 2023 

As human beings we deal with an understanding ‘tomorrow will come’ but we cannot precisely predict what it will be like. Capitalistic narrative tends to create an illusion of stability that tomorrow will be similar to today and we will have same resources and starting positions. The future will come, what it will be like?

Sculptural project of Anna Bochkova reflects her research towards futuristic utopia. Bochkova creates a speculative space of imaginable future where on remnants of familiar landscape humans are driven to learn how to communicate differently with surroundings. They apply absolute care, they wear protection suits in order not to damage that little what is left, they speak with stones and learn from plants how to subsist on solar energy.

Anna Bochkova is interested in searching for the line between utopia dystopia and reality. As well as she continues questioning our perception of these concepts where imaginary and speculative realms intermix with real memories of spaces, forms and structures. Anna Bochkova has been driven by ideas and theories of eastern European modernist thinkers and their ideas and solutions to such questions as ecology, care, living together etc.