Elvin Nabizada Chance
This brightly lit Rubik’s Cube is the only space in the exhibition to be cooled by an air-conditioning unit produced at the factory, and this is the only opportunity to experience what this factory once created. It seems to signify the random nature of history, the arbitrary events leading to this point, like the endless configurations of a Rubik’s Cube.
Ayna Musayeva The Beginning
Air conditioning today is synonymous with keeping people cool, but its original purpose was to keep the paper dry in the humid printing presses of New York. Returning to the industry’s roots, Musayeva has draped sheets of paper from the factory’s ceiling, fashioned to seem as if they are running with liquid gold.
Anar Samsiyev and Ruslan A´gazada Copy
If you’re looking for a sign to guide you, here are several – but which one is real? What is merely illusion? The artists play with our perceptions, photographing objects, making slight colour changes to the prints and hanging the images next to the originals – can you spot the difference?