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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.
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Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.

Dismantling the language of monuments & Moscow’s Triumphal Arch with a solo exhibition by Aleksei Taruts

, 23 March 2020

The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages, a solo exhibition by Aleksei Taruts, was on at szena, Moscow, running December 17 to February 23.

Aleksei Taruts, The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + szena, Moscow.

With mixed-media installation and video, the show examines Moscow’s Triumphal Arch — exploring its commemoration of the Russian defeat of Napoleon’s France, as well as its 19th century fabrication and reconstruction in the ‘60s — to unpack complex histories of militarism, architectural semiotics and European mythologies. As Andrey Shental comments in the exhibition’s catalogue text: “Like the very victory itself, which still remains contested, the history of this monument is comprised of a series of ambivalent reconstructions, dislocations, and displacements of meaning.”**

Aleksei Taruts’ The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages was on at Moscow’s szena, running December 17, 2019 to February 23, 2020.