Window 404

Installation, action
Waste paper, ardboard

2024

Paper is a pass material, it is official and bureaucratic, compact and formal. Paper contains important information, identifies a person, informs, records and is used for reporting purposes, confirms and declines, grants permission or denies it. For all its apparent seriousness, it is a very airy, sensitive and fragile material that is carefully stored in archives, afraid of changes and accepts corrections reluctantly.
We are here now, but where we will be is unknown. In a situation where the universe is expanding in all directions, the world is increasingly unpredictable and bright future is becoming a doubtful concept, planning seems pointless. Can we influence our location, or is it the will of circumstances and coincidences that we are forced to obey?
A small paper ticket issued by the Department of Random Paper Redirects can become a temporary consolation and an island of stability in a world that cannot be predicted.
To continue viewing the exhibition, you need to take a ticket in the Window 404 on paper confirming your identity.
It is not allowed to continue watching without a ticket. Please keep your ticket until you leave the premises.
It is prohibited to: transfer the ticket to third parties, divide the ticket into parts, twist the ticket into a tube, crumple and use it in other ways for other purposes.
It is allowed to: sell the ticket as part of the "Window 404" object, return the ticket in proper form to window 404 (if the window is closed, return the ticket to the artist).
The ticket is valid until arrival at the specified coordinates.

“Window 404” is an action that the artist held at the exhibition “The Village that does not sleep” in 2024 in the CTI Fabrika. During the action each spectator was given a ticket, with which he received a fantastic opportunity to travel to the specified coordinates.

There are 100 unique tickets, most of which have real coordinates, the other part — with an asterisk — reminds to return to the specified direction as often as possible.