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At the Garden of Hands, Alena Tereshko presents soft sculptures that appear as assemblages of the hands and other parts of the human body. They are characters with personalities referring to various unspeakable emotional states or tangled relationships with selves and others: for instance, a fighter, or a rebel (“Fist”), the one with multiple arms…

I cherish friendships and love my friends; I tend to rely on them. We work and apply for grants together, and I consider them my safe space and comfort zone. My identity is defined through communication with them. At the same time, I cannot help but wonder how the word “friendship” in art related topics…

Nobody greets you at the front door of MASSIA, but the doors are always open. The place is welcoming and full of hospitality. As Kaytlin D. Hamilton, one of our field trip participants said, the house guides you. So, if you pay enough attention, it slowly opens up, shares its stories (look at all these Soviet…