Object, performance 45 minutes
December 22, 2006
Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Group exhibition: Christmas Inside Me

On the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, sixteen artists were invited to create New Year trees in real time during a live performance.

From the author: For 45 minutes, I decorated a fir tree that wasn’t there.
From a stepladder, I carefully hung invisible ornaments on invisible branches.
The audience watched, whispered, laughed, and filmed.

The work played with belief, absence, ritual, and suggestion.
It was later described by the jury as a “conceptual miracle” and sold at a festive auction charity.

Press mention:
“Some of the trees — like Marina Razheva’s weightless fir — were even sold. For almost an hour, the artist moved up and down a stepladder, hanging non-existent ornaments on a non-existent tree.”
—IA Apelsin