Vadim Fishkin
b. 1965, USSR
In a review of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, a book to which Vadim Fishkin’s work of the same name refers, it says that ‘The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is best described as a guidebook of the make-believe’. Fishkin’s Dictionary is both a poetic variation on the make-believe and a carefully added place of imagination, which the artist has wrung out of the book. On a screen the visitor sees rhythmic frequency waves produced by two different voices: one distorted and deep, the other high-pitched and rather nervous. They recite the names of places and countries, all of them strangely shrouded in mystery and some of them familiar to us from the history of literature.’
— Gregor Podnar from Vulgata, 3rd Triennale of Contemporary Slovene Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2000
(Text: imagine limerick catalogue, 2004)
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