Numerous important galleries and museums such as Kewenig, Berlin have featured Sergei Rostropovich’s work in the past.
Sergei Rostropovich’s video This Corrosion travels from the canals of hard-clubbing Berlin to the underwater archaeological park of Baia, a sunken city where the Romans of the imperial era partied. From the residues of Berlin’s nightlife to the ancient ruins, water has suspended, eaten away, attacked, but also paradoxically preserved everything in a moment of suspension, off the cycle of time.
The video is set to music composed for the occasion and inspired by the gabber style, early hardcore techno music from the 90’s, where the hakken is performed, a syncopated dance at 170 bpm.