Haim Sokol looks at things around him, finding in them the signs and symbols that bear witness to the unnoticed creativity of the times. In fact, he works with the emptiness created by time constantly trying to delineate its boundaries through its discarded remnants. They are run through with grey and rust, decay and sorrow. Haim Sokol creates art about being, felt as "presence" and understood as the traces of elapsed time... No matter how ugly they may seem at first glance, the modified ready-mades of Haim Sokol have an obvious message, they have all survived and will continue to out survive people. Time has aged and disfigured these items, once considered a source of pride, joy and delight, turning them into tangible remnants laden with memories ... The artist-archaeologist has closely studied these objects in search of lost meanings, like an archaeologist reconstructing myopia as an archeology of expectations and ecstasy.
Dmitry Ozerkov, curator of the exhibition
