Silentium, an Exhibition of Works by Yulia Bugueva, dedicated to Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh 

Silentium, an Exhibition of Works by Yulia Bugueva

The SILENTIUM project is an exhibition of drawings and posters by Moscow artist Julia Bugueva. In this project she tries to realise her heart’s longing to share via the artistic media her feelings about Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh – an orthodox priest and scholar who expressed not only the Russian spiritual tradition, but the universal Truth as well.

“We should try to live in a way that if the Gospels were lost, they could be written anew by looking at us”, he said once. Metropolitan Anthony tried to follow this principle in his own life – and was justly called an Apostle of Love.

A sheet of paper and a pencil are the artist’s primary tools. A pencil registers the soul’s minute movements, leaving its imprint on paper. Just as cardiograms show “texts” of our heart, drawings can be regarded as psychograms or “texts” of the artist’s soul.

Posters allow us to increase the size of drawings (reading deeper into a “text”), to fragment these drawings (quoting a “text”), and ultimately “to unpack the sense” – in the words of philosopher Vasily Nalimov. These posters become art objects in themselves.