Artist statement

I started visiting planetarium earlier than cinema or theatre. My mother, an astrophysicist, worked at a planetarium, and I spent my preschool years looking at the stars and listening to her lectures. In addition, in my family home library, along with physics and mathematics textbooks, there was a huge amount of science fiction literature. These were mainly books of the 60-70s, when the topic of space exploration was very popular in the USSR and around the world. Therefore, the heroes of those books lived in the future, widely travelled between galaxies, and contacted with inhabitants of distant planets. So, my early childhood world was much larger than my city, country, or even planet. And it still is.

In my practice, I explore the crisis of human identity as a subject to change under the influence of rapidly developing biotechnologies, considering the human being as one of the countless living organisms inhabiting the universe. I suggest a search for an answer to the question “What is a human in the contemporary world?” starting from the molecular level and then scaling the study to infinite dimensions through the careful examination of the human’s micro-space in the context of global macro-space to determine the role of “human” with its connections or contra-position to “in-/non-/against human”.