The Russian exhibition presents an ambitious work, entitled “The Green Pavilion”, through which Irina Nakhova (b. 1955) interacts with the architecture of the pavilion, designed in 1913 by Aleksey Shchusev, also author of the Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow.
Taking the cue from the “total installations” by Ilya Kabakov, and pulling further the concept expressed in her own “Rooms” installations of the 1980s, Nakhova has set up five spaces, where a complex interaction between art, architecture and spectator’s perception develops in surprising ways, so exploiting the original concept by Shchusev, who did not intend the pavilion as a mere container, but as an active support to artists’ creativity instead.