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EXIT MAG — exit galleries

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This essay is a portal opening. The thought layered, much like the spaces we’ve created over the past six years. These spaces have held much learning, much iteration, much refinement. Many hours of silent work. Many more of conversation. The truth is—this is a leap of faith. To attempt to articulate the ideas, the aims, and the intentionality behind the ongoing work. Because the work itself is never final—a continuous carving away, an attempt to uncover core Truth.. This is not a finished doctrine, but an open letter, an outstretched hand. It is an offering which will hopefully inspire further growth, deeper insight, and a sense of direction—a map for how humanity can get closer to itself, and to each other. Let this aspect of the work, as an added dimension, also be a space—a vessel—to step into, together… For decades, the promise of public art has been to provoke, to beautify, to “activate” space. But in an era dominated by spectacle—a condition famously critiqued by Guy Debord, wher

VIA CHSSKHA “Sandblasters” is the self proclaimed union of outsider Krasnoyarsk artists Vladimir Kravchenko, Arseny Chuksin, Andrey Shmaliy, and Nikita Che. Sitting out in the middle of Siberia, Russia, the group of twenty-somethings have sandblasted out a signal all the way over to us in good ol USA. For however abysmal we claim social media to be, we wouldn’t have connected with these guys otherwise. So thank god for that. Blending mystical ephemera with corporate iconography, the artists collective world function as a form of personal and artistic escapism. The Sandblasters make their…

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