Aleksander Hardashnakov

round up
round down
wound up
and ground
down
it can seem
like a 
terrible
dream

    make a 
     wish 
      knowing
       it cant go
        on like
         this

    mal  society fails
    all
    toss a penny
    and pray
    before it falls
we wont slip under
                      the sickle

this may not be hell
      but all is not
            WELL

Aleksander Hardashnakov (b. 1982, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo shows include Union Pacific, London; Roberta Pelan, Toronto; 1857, Oslo; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Tomorrow, New York. His work has been part of group exhibitions at Stereo, Warsaw; Cooper Cole, Toronto; Croy Nielsen, Berlin; Dortmunder Kunstverein, and Le Magasin, Grenoble, among others. He is also co-director of the project space The Loon in Toronto.