Textile, patchwork

This is the series of carpets created with the material, which is traditionally used for the bedding linen in Russia – a simple white fabric with an abstract relief created by the weaving technique. The main character in them is very recognisable: Russian bear is an important part of the national mythology and folklore. It is a totem, a symbol of the fatalism inherent to the Russian mindset. Our black bear with his red years somehow naturally appeared on the carpets we have been working on. His actions and the reasons behind them are not always clear, he is randomly juxtaposed with different objects. However, these juxtapositions create somehow scenarios, turn us from viewers to storytellers and allow us to take part in some sort of a playful act, in the performance with metamorphoses.

Cut-out and embroidery on fabric

Old things: rugs, blankets, towels and tablecloths are an infinite source of inspiration for us. In this series of works we wanted to merge them with the familiar and cherished personages, to underline the comforting atmosphere of works.

Cut-out and embroidery on fabric

Salvative void is not only the airless, boundless space, of which Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dreamed but also the world of simple and naive things. Objects that remained from the previous époque, that still remember the birth of the current time of space travelling. They envisage the everyday ascetic life of scientists, engineers and dreamers who transformed the "impossible future" in our reality. The company of these objects invites us to escape from the fuss of the everyday world and observe the endless space within ourselves.

Textile, patchwork, embroidery

"This was our first experience with the printing techniques, transferring photography on rough course calico.The first fragment is the photo of Christ the Saviour in a wreath – 18th century wooden sculpture found in Solikamsk. As soon as we have seen it printed – it defined the character of the work: all the following prints varied in transparency, defined by the natural whiteness of calico. Repetitiveness and the elongated character of the work invite the viewer to meditate over the concept of sacrifice through the imaginery of the wreath's metamorphoses.
"Symbolic space" series is a combination of the simple and bold suprematist vocabulary defined by Kazemir Malevich with the archaic figurativeness of the traditional wooden religious sculpture, highly popular in 17th-18th century in the Ural region"

Cut-out and embroidery on fabric

"We love observing people with gadgets, we find them very poetic sometimes. Their gaze is always fixed, their face – lit by the soft glow of their devices.
The situation in which they can find themselves is very dualistic. On one hand they are absorbed into the virtual world, with its own scale, time and system of coordinates. On the other hand they (sometimes clumsily) still operate in our physical space. This duality is reflected in our series of the double-sided embroideries"