Something new: talking carpets from Art de Vivre and Tatiana Akhmetgalieva

It turns out that carpets can tell us about ouryou a lot of life! You can see this for yourself from April 1 to 30 in GUM, where Art de Vivre and Tatyana Akhmetgalieva will present the installation “Life Doesn’t Sleep on the Carpet” What if carpets could talk? They would tell the world about the most diverse moments of human life: here is a baby looking at a patterned carpet, seeing something new in its design each time; and here is a young man kneeling on the carpet and proposing to his beloved... Our cats curl up into a ball on the carpet, our children take their first steps on the carpet, we read books, fool around and hug our loved ones while lying on the carpet. Tatyana Akhmetgalieva thought about all this and embodied her thoughts in an unusual and kind project “Life Doesn’t Sleep on the Carpet”. From April 1 to 30, the installation will be presented in GUM. Tatyana Akhmetgalieva, artist Known for her large-scale textile panels and installations. Graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design and the PRO ARTE Institute. Works in the genres of painting, installation, creates objects, video, often combining different media. Exhibitions of her works were held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), the Triumph Gallery (Moscow), the Russian Museum, the Tkachi creative space (St. Petersburg), the Marina Gisich Gallery (St. Petersburg), Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki), and the Calvert 22 Foundation (London). tanya-akhmetgalieva.com Tatyana Akhmetgalieva is confident that embroidery andknitting is a full-fledged media, and each of its exhibitions proves it again and again. The installation "Life does not sleep on the carpet" will not be an exception: it will touch upon family relationships, tell living stories and make you think about many things. The artist used canvaseshigh-quality carpets from Art de Vivre. By adding good humor and pop art elements, Tatyana Akhmetgalieva turned them into a kind of comics. Each of us will recognize ourselves in these stories - and will be surprised how much the most ordinary carpet can tell about human life… photographer Alexander Lavrentiev, kover.ru, tanya-akhmetgalieva.com