2021
THE GOLD PANTRY
Installation in Golubitskoe Foundation
Works included in the installation refer to archaeological finds from the Taman Peninsula that are associated with mysticism and sacred practices along with their connection to the most utilitarian aspects of life. Hand embroideries from this series impersonate familiar imagery or tales. For example, one of the embroidered "cameo's" plots is based on Taman's central myth about how the acting president of Russia retrieves an ancient amphora from the bottom of the sea as a part of his infamous PR campaign.


BUSINESS AS USUAL (2025)
Tapestry, hand embroidery, beading
123 x 144 cm
The piece constitutes a woven reproduction of a controversial/infamous work by Théodore Géricault “The Raft of the Medusa”. The painting, which instigated a scandal in 1819, still dismays us today with its grim aesthetic and horrifying storyline of the wreck of frigate Meduse and its survivors. In fact, the image increasingly resonates with the current time and its events of destruction, wars and catastrophes. 
The saying “Business as usual” embroidered over the woven surface is not an attempt to perceive the frightening through an ironic lens. It is more a statement of fact – no matter how awful the events are, the world as we built it continues functioning.

Writing of the large scale beads embroidery is of the usual meme font. And the woven texture of tapestry resembles a pixelated image of low quality downloaded from the internet. Memes ceased to be solely a comical form a long time ago. During the covid period, the meme making process became a kind of tool of coping with reality. Today, a meme is more often a form of social commentary than an attempt to garner a cheap laugh (or both at the same time).



me imagining (2025)
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