Dima Erlich's project “Bored & Horny”

On Friday, June 5, at 18:00, an exhibition of Odessa artist Dima Erlikh Bored & Horny will open at the Odessa Museum of Modern Art.              The project is conceived as interdisciplinary and includes a visual part, sound design, dynamic floristic compositions and a series of performances by Odessa musicians and DJs. The opening party will feature: Lu Joyce, Potreba and Vybukhivka.              Bored & Horny is the second personal project of Dima Ehrlich, whose creative method is to highlight acute social manifestations, aesthetizing and mixing them in his works. Among his interests are painting of mannerism, the work of David Hockney, underground music, plants and masks. The project asks a rhetorical question: "Are you excited when you are bored?" Everyone can answer it in their own way, and this is the essence.              “In my work I often use masks and OSB boards. This is a kind of interpretation of the analysis of personality into components, which is the shortest path to yourself. I combine the contrast of the reckless softness of Hockney’s work with the harsh and emotionally tense subjects of religious painting of mannerism with the technique of deconstructing the surrounding space: fragments of a board, plants, light, sound, geometry, ”says Dima Erlich about his new project.“The lack of faces behind a multi-colored mask is an attempt to get away from an obsessive personality, thereby providing the viewer with the opportunity to represent anyone in the plot of paintings and installations. Erlich's project is a subjective space facing a person, his consciousness and erotic fantasies in times of total boredom. It was important for me to show Dima's artistic practice in the project, which has recently been closely associated with underground music. I think it will be an interesting experience for the artistic environment of Odessa, ”says Andrei Siguntsov, new curator of the Moscow Institute of International Relations.              The musical content of the project is supervised by Dmitry Melekhov and the Odessa project USU - a modern musical educational platform. The sound design was prepared for installation by USU Gael A. and Viktor B. Technical Support - Technology Group.              Attention! In a pandemic, please come to the event in a mask. The opening and a musical event will take place in the courtyard of the museum, the entrance to the exhibition will be carried out in stages of 15 people in order to avoid a large crowd.              June 5 on the opening day from 18:00 to 22:00 will perform:       Lu Joyce: soundcloud.com/user-758208048       Potreba: soundcloud.com/potreba       Vybukhivka: soundcloud.com/vybukhivka              Further activities within the framework of the Bored & Horny project can be found on the pages of the social networks of the ISIS.       The exhibition runs from June 5 to July 5.              Entrance to the opening is free, in the following days the cost of the admission ticket is 40 UAH.