A meeting with artists at a solo exhibition is always a unique opportunity to learn first-hand the history of their works, to look at photographs through the eyes of the authors and to ask all questions.
On 26 January at 18.00 at the Centre of Visual Culture Béton  Valera and Natasha Cherkashin will give a tour of the exhibition ‘Love and Ages of Change’.
The authors will talk about their work with the cultural heritage of the USSR during perestroika. The objects of their attention were: Moscow Metro, VDNKh, Stalin’s high-rises and mythology of that time.
They made a number of exhibitions and installations on this theme, as well as several colourful performances in the Moscow Metro at the Ploshchad Revolutsii station: Love of the People to ‘Art for the People’ and ‘Underground Wedding’.
From 1995-2000 the artists actively worked with the cultural heritage of Europe and the USA, exploring imperial cultures and thinking. This was expressed in the project ‘Mirages of Empires’.
In 1999-2000 the Cherkashins’ underwater exhibition ‘Farewell Favourite European Portraits: Hello Euro’ was held in the atrium pool of the World Bank headquarters in Washington. It was dedicated to another departure into the past, the retirement from circulation of banknotes of European countries and the transition to a single European currency.