Inposition

2001

Non-spectacular exhibition
Central House of Artists, Moscow
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Inposition is considered an important moment in Osmolovsky’s transition from radical street actionism to a more museum-oriented and object-based artistic practice.

The title itself — Inposition — was a play on words and concepts: not simply an “exhibition” or “exposition,” but rather something like an “inner positioning,” a pressure of form from within. For Osmolovsky at that time, it was important to move away from the direct political gestures of the 1990s and begin exploring how ideology and the energy of protest could exist within artistic form itself. Later, he would describe this as the transformation of a political position into an artistic form.

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