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Source is the story of freezing the flowing of time. Liquid – water? oil? – has suddenly stopped its movement and become sheets of chipboard. The end. The source has run dry. The ‘flowing present’ of an individual without faith in progress, one open to streams of information, has become a dried-up source. In the artist’s work alienation has replaced the Soviet experience and the nostalgia of memorial modelling (La Biblioteca di Pinocchio, Galleria PACK, 2007). Source stands on the edge of transition from criticism of a socially-recognisable order to a more abstracted stance, as if the artist …