PARANORMAL PHENOMENA

solo show Dishon Yuldash

Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, entrance H8

03.06 – 04.07.2025

On June 3, the a—s—t—r—a contemporary art gallery hosted the opening of Dishon Yuldash’s solo exhibition “PARANORMAL PHENOMENA”. The project refers to the contemporary space of Southeast Asian cities, where the artist has lived and worked in recent years, building the critical field of the project around issues of control and subordination.

Space — be it an urban environment or a place of communication between subjects — is always under the gaze of the observer, the hearer, the one who feels it. In the emptiness filled with the gaze, role models of communication are suddenly built, where observation becomes a key function, forming a system of control and influence.

The system of interactions between the observed and the observer has given rise to many cultural ideas.

Thus, in monotheistic religions, the place of the observer was occupied by angels and demons — invisible forces, but constantly acting, participating in human life: watching, punishing or guiding. The potential of their gaze was revealed regardless of evidence of their physical presence, as a given that we feel. However, this observation is not always open and conscious for the subject. In modern cities, existing in a hybrid state — digital and material — observation is often carried out unnoticed. The spaces of the periphery, nature and the urban environment permeated with digital surveillance systems find their open clash especially vividly in the cities of South Asia, where nature in all its diversity is filled with a predatory potential for capture, survival and filling.

It was the observation of the urban environment of South Asia, where Dishon Yuldash has lived for the last few years, and communication with a technology company engaged in video surveillance that gave birth to the idea of the project "PARANORMAL PHENOMENA".

A year ago, a technology company approached Dishon Yuldash with a request to develop a series of sculptures that would simultaneously serve as objects to conceal video surveillance, but retain the function of an art object.

The sculptures were supposed to be almost invisible, but aesthetically integrated into the environment of private homes and urban infrastructure.

The collaboration did not work out, but communication with a company specializing in video surveillance and the format of the request itself — placing the artist’s practice in the function of concealing control — became the impetus for the creation of the project “PARANORMAL PHENOMENA”.

This dialogue, as the artist says, “launched another practice in me — the practice of deep observation”.

In the project “PARANORMAL PHENOMENA”, the contrast between the obvious manifesto of the image, its repetition on flags and the image of living beings launches in us the functions of scanning space, distributing roles in it.

Living organisms — squeezed, implanted, hidden in geometric forms — frame a round mirror surface, either crawling out of it or trying to become aware of themselves through reflection. In their bodies they contain traces of transition, hybridity, change. Interaction with their structure is still unstable, not verified, but already manifested in the images on the flags, as a manifesto of their givenness. They seem to invite the viewer to a dialogue, breaking the strict geometry of the mirror circle with communication.

The potential for their movement and escape from the viewer's gaze is revealed in the objects "Cave". This object is like a cast of a shelter, a form covering the void. In a sense, it is a captured, hidden from view space. We are not able to see what these objects hide beneath them — it is a cast of skin, leather, surface.

The “caves” are evenly distributed across the plinths, easy to see, not hidden. They retain control over the space behind them, forcing us to recurse to the situation in which we look at them. Recursion to the room, to the architecture, to the city, to the environment in the broad sense of the word, which often invisibly controls our choices – like a room with soft walls, gentle pressure and smooth manipulation of attention.

— Anna Tagantseva, artist, curator, founder of the Devyatnadtsat gallery and aacademy 19

Exhibition Paranormal phenomenon, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, 2025

Yuldash Dishon

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural medium. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.

Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. She lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art Im. Graduated from Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art: New Art Strategies course, specializing in contemporary art practice, workshop of Stas Shuripa.

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, and new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.

As a resident of Richter Workshops, artist Dishon Yuldash created the bottle design for Richter perfume with incense and black currant scent by Matvei Yudov.

She is the founder of the non-profit project Prolog.Vision, which realized the group exhibition “Planned Obsolescence” by curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the “Innovation - 2017” award in the category “Curator of the Year” for the exhibition.

PROJECTS AND AWARDS:

2014 / to this day — Founder of non-profit project ISSMAG gallery
2016 — Founder of non-profit project Prolog.Vision
2016 - Prolog.Vision. “Planned Obsolescence” international project, guest curator Alexander Burenkov. Parallel program of the V Moscow Biennale, Moscow
2017 - Prolog.Vision, award “innovation - 2017” curator of the year. (curator Alexander Burenkov)

SELECTED FAIRS:

2025 — "PARANORMAL PHENOMENA", a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2021 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 — Blazar Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2022 — Blazar Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2022 — Art Moscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2023 — Art Moments Jakarta Art Fair, Kendys gallery, Bali
2024 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Москва

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2024 — “Locus amoenus” group project, Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
2024 — “Dark Room No. 1” solo project, 19 DEVYATNADTSAT, Moscow
2024 — “Souvenir Trapa Natan”, Skaz Art Festival, Altai
2023 — “Horizon brings time closer” group project Deeplist, Moscow
2023 — Art residence Nuer Sang, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2022 — “Dead kingdom” solo project, NOVAT, Novosibirsk
2022 — “Staff &|| Transparent rod” artweekend art festival, Altai
2022 — “Found trophy” solo project ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2021 — “Ceremony 19742” solo project, Daipyat, Voronezh
2021 — “Beauty bomb” group project ISSMAG Gallery. Moscow
2020 — “Upper layer of the sky” solo project. Hotel Richter, Moscow
2020 — Art residency, Hotel Richter Workshops, Moscow
2020 — “The loud sound of the serena” solo project, Villa Papi Mamie, Le Croisic, France
2019 — “Minisystems”, Hotel Richter , Moscow
2019 — Travel agency “Noumen” Globalization and the unknown. Part l. Fabrika, Moscow

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

2024 — “Clouds ”Yulia Goldman. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2023 — “Numb Brushes” Vika Begalskaya & Alexander Vilkin. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2022 — “Life Force. Rhodesian Genius” Dmitry Gilen, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2021 — “Exercise in virtue” group exhibition.
ISSMAG gallery. Moscow
2021 — “All dogs go to heaven” Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2020 — “Deformation without tearing and gluing” Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG, Moscow
2020 — Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2020 — “Quintessence multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” Katya Khasina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2020-2021 — New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG gallery. Moscow
2020 — “∅. no w” sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, gallery, Moscow
2019 — Curator of projects a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2018 — “Protodermis” installation by Abu Blount. ISSMAG gallry, Moscow
2018 — Concert-practice “m e r t s a n i e” by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2017 — “Vctn” installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2017 — “Who if you are not” performance by Alexei Tarutz. Rabitsa, Moscow
2017 — “Let all your dreams come true” performance-audio installation, Alexei Tarutz. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow Cosmoscow, Moscow
2016 — “Respawn, exactly, if not you then who” solo exhibition by Alexei Tarutz. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2016 — “Bangs” / “Bangs” solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. Fabrika, Moscow
2015 — “STILL MOVING” group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow