The Mini Cinema

Sanya Kantarovsky – A Solid House

Stockholm

The collection

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An ape-like figure moves hesitantly through the dark rooms of a strange home, seemingly trying to make sense of its new surroundings. The voice-over in Sanya Kantarovsky’s “A Solid House” (2022) describes how we shape our sense of self by mirroring a false image of reality.

Inspired by the Buddhist thinker Chögyam Trungpa, Kantarovsky’s film “A Solid House” suggests that illusion can ultimately lead us astray – lost in our own hallucination. The computer-generated interiors, rendered with perfect precision, are contrasted with images of nature captured on 16 mm film.

A SOLID HOUSE

12:21 min, 2022
Sanya Kantarovsky

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Place

Floor 2

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Free admission

Sanya Kantarovsky (b 1982, Russia) is based in New York and works with painting, sculpture, and installation. His works are often marked by melancholy and dark humor, drawing elements from both art history and popular culture. In the video piece, references recur to the painting “The Death of Marat” (1793) by Jacques-Louis David – a propaganda image portraying the stabbed Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary and an instigator of the Reign of Terror, as a martyr. Kantarovsky raises questions about our humanity and reminds us that societies and ideologies, too, can take shape within an echo chamber of illusions.