The Pasture will take you to an oppressive, uncomfortable place as it puts you before an unsettling art curator, walking before them and taking pictures as the world around shifts and twists, pieces of Russian contemporary art appearing and making themselves known to you as you whirl through a world of dizzying, uncontrollable creativity.
Art is born before you as you walk through The Pasture. It appears out of thin air, or occurs as the world shudders and changes before you. Visuals alter and distort as you move through your gallery, staying just ahead of the menacing curator who’s just on your heels. There is a constant pressure in this game – a sense that you have to take it all in and compose meaning on it quickly before you’re caught.
It’s a surreal experience, one that teaches about art while mimicking the tremendous pressure an artist can have in understand the work of the previous masters while struggling to find their own vision of the world, and all before death can take them. It’s frightening and it’s uncomfortable and it’s beautiful in its chaos, creating a overwhelming flurry of thoughts and images for the senses and mind to come to terms with.
The Pasture is available for $ 0.99 on Steam. For more information on the game and developer Mikhail Maksimov, you can follow them on Vimeo.
