Cupola Art
Commissioned by SEKTA Wine Bar
Ekaterinburg, Russia
2019
Interior by Julia Ionova
Photo by Maksim Loskutov
The Atlas of Pleasures
Project suggests to explore the art of degustation and history of wine making in a fantasy celestial map referencing The Geography of Heavens. A series of images of exotic birds, flowers, antique statues and alchemical symbols represent both scientifically proven approaches and stories and those not from all over the world in imaginary constellations. The cupola is performed in Renaissance technique trompe l’oeil, which visually turns the painting into a ‘window’ into the night sky.
New Cool
Commisioned by Buro.
Depot, Moscow, Russia
2019
Insight
The installation creates a visual portal into a dimension behind the mirror plane. Visually sculptures from soap, goldleaf and neon reference plasticity of classical sculpture and pretend to exist in both dimensions, changing their configuration visually alongside with the movement of the viewer’s eye. In an attempt to link real and imaginary, the works invite visitors to engage and explore the reality seen in the mirror through touch, aroma, and sound they make.
Commissioned by USHATAVA
Moscow, Russia
2018
Lovegirl
The installation invites visitors to visit Lovegirl, the atelier of mysticism. Space of the showroom is reworked with electric lights of neon, pink candlelights, flowers, mirrors, crystals, and sparkling curtains, into an imaginary and eclectic space, where visitors are suggested to try their luck and receive a prediction in a form of a temporary tattoo with signs from a variety of cultures and quotes from the songs from New York scene from 80-s.
Gorky Park 90 Festival
Commissioned by Gorky Park
Gorky Park Rose Garden, Moscow, Russia
2018
In a collaboration with OMMA (Playtronica)
The Unicorn Dream
The happening is inspired by an image of unicorns in medieval and renaissance cultures and suggests Gorky Park visitors to engage with an imaginary space of the Rose Garden, which turns into a fantasy world for one day, when the unicorn is not sleeping in rose bushes and listens to the dreams of the visitors. The visitors are to go through a ritual: count 90 roses, make a wish and tie a ribbon in one of the pavillions around the fountain. With every pink ‘breath’ of the unicorn the wishes ‘fly away’ from the fantasy land to become true.
Special project for New Japan
Commissioned by Shiseido
Solyanka VPA, Moscow, Russia
2018
In a collaboration with Playtronica
SENSUI
The installation invites the visitors to engage with the mysterious: to see, inhale the aroma, touch, hear the rustle and almost feel the touch back. In this project tactility becomes an impulse to explore synesthetic abilities of body and mind and suggests visitors to immerse into the ultra-sensual world of natural and technological components. The sound changes depending on the interaction of two people and is designed referring to ASMR.
The Impossible is Inevitable
Commissioned by Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow, Russia
2018
The Horizon of the Impossible
The game table, a sky map of fantastical objects, invites for a play: visitors are to come up with an invention of their own and place it’s drawing into the abyss. The' ‘meteorites’, presented as a geological collection, are to evoke qualities of a modern dreamer through touch, smell and sound. For more inspiration, the stories of famous inventors and researchers are kept behind the doors is the wall at a touch of a hand.
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The Impossible is Inevitable
Commissioned by Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow, Russia
2018
Collection of Weaknesses of the Human Being
The table, referencing the objects from a cabinet of curiosities, plays with materials native to medicine: soap, silicon, plaster, beeswax, glass and others at the same time reminding of magical substances.
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Secrets of the Body
In a shape of camera obscura the visitors are suggested to look ‘inside’ a human body only to find themselves surrounded by a series of its reflections reminding about new systems of examination and exploration.
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Skeleton of Eternal Life
The techno-skeleton is a mystified object, which aims to grant modifications found in nature to a human body through engagement with it. These include various super-abilities, reminding of current possibility of technology to ‘touch’.
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The Impossible is Inevitable
Commissioned by Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow, Russia
2018
In a collaboration with Playtronica
ODYSSEY
The monoliths are a mysterious space technology, which aims to create new ways of communication between human and other forms of life the universe through bodily engagement. These transform touch and heart rate, thus emotional states, into audible signals and form knowledge of self and others.
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Moscow, Russia
2017
In a collaboration with KseniaSeraya
ELEMENT
The cast silicon sculptures aim to work with designers garments to fill in the open parts of the body. Inspired by climate and the history of Arctic, the were inspired by snow and ice textures.