Exhibition about "ПНИ"
Total area: 593 m²
Location: Moscow, Museum of Moscow
Year: 2025
THE PROJECT WAS DEVELOPMENT IN COOPERATION WITH NZ GROUP
PHOTO: Olga Alekseenko
Location: Moscow, Museum of Moscow
Year: 2025
THE PROJECT WAS DEVELOPMENT IN COOPERATION WITH NZ GROUP
PHOTO: Olga Alekseenko
A museum shop with products from inclusive workshops. It's dark around, with low ceilings, and only the shop's illuminated windows invite you to peek inside. This is how the exhibition about the most closed world begins - the world of psychoneurologic boarding-school (ПНИ) and their residents.
Tables for interactive installations "Participation Opportunities", where the visitor is left alone with the «ПНИ» phenomenon.
The largest part of the exhibition was dedicated to the works of photographer Yuri Kozyrev, in which he introduced the visitor to the psychoneurologic boarding-school. These are documentary photographs that consistently immerse the viewer in the life of people, where every day like the previous one.
The hall where Yuri Kozyrev's works are presented is a symbolic re-creation of the boarding school's space, with a long corridor and dim light, narrow rooms, and sound. In this hall, the exhibition controls the viewer.
The hall where Yuri Kozyrev's works are presented is a symbolic re-creation of the boarding school's space, with a long corridor and dim light, narrow rooms, and sound. In this hall, the exhibition controls the viewer.
Exhibition space
The central installation of the exhibition is the ambrotype paintings by Yuri Kozyrev. It was presented in the form of a microdistrict – houses with windows, whose residents tell their stories.
Behind the "iron houses" of the microdistrict, visitors pass into a brightly lit section that promises a bright future, where they can see photographs of positive human stories and new twists in the lives of the residents of the psychoneurologic boarding-school.
Behind the "iron houses" of the microdistrict, visitors pass into a brightly lit section that promises a bright future, where they can see photographs of positive human stories and new twists in the lives of the residents of the psychoneurologic boarding-school.
The last hall of the exhibition space "House of Creativity" is dedicated to the works of the artist Alexey Sakhnov. In a small part of the hall, the artist's workshop was created, where he came to work.
The complex-shaped wall, next to the workshop, was created so that the viewer could see all four screens on which the artist's creative process was broadcast. Inside the walls, there are small spaces with the artist's exhibits – these are papier-mâché houses. To see them, you need to look through the window.
