2025
Photo project
created at the PolArt residency, Norilsk
Photographs — 20x20 cm
Photo project
created at the PolArt residency, Norilsk
Photographs — 20x20 cm
The genetic code of the city
A series of 100 photographs of crawl spaces becomes a visual system in which the city’s genetic code can be read. These are not merely technical voids beneath buildings, but the primary matrix upon which the entire architectural fabric rests. In conditions of permafrost, crawl spaces act as a buffer, a protective layer, an adaptive mechanism — and at the same time they become a metaphor for the invisible foundation of urban life.
Each photograph is like a “letter” in the code; each detail is a trace of the environment, the conditions, and time itself. Different in shape, scale, and state, they form a rhythm — a unified language speaking of the construction of life, of engineering ingenuity, and of a stubborn rootedness within the environment.
This is a portrait of the city composed not from its image, but from its support.
Each photograph is like a “letter” in the code; each detail is a trace of the environment, the conditions, and time itself. Different in shape, scale, and state, they form a rhythm — a unified language speaking of the construction of life, of engineering ingenuity, and of a stubborn rootedness within the environment.
This is a portrait of the city composed not from its image, but from its support.
