2025
UV printing on metal,
148х210 mm
UV printing on metal,
148х210 mm
Reflection of the outskirts
This series transforms a typical Moscow district — Zapadnoye Degunino — into a space of transition between the visible and the elusive, between the documentary landscape and its reflection. The work focuses on the everyday, “non-picturesque” nature of the urban periphery. Standardized architecture and the monotony of forms become not merely a backdrop, but a medium in which boundaries dissolve. Within this “non-picturesque” environment, a special kind of poetics emerges — a sense of shelter within the everyday, a quiet refuge at the edge of systems.
The project explores how our perception of space shifts when the familiar urban form becomes porous, fluid, and reflective. The city, as a living organism, breathes, forgets, and overgrows.
It is important for me to show that the perception of the city itself is as fragile and changeable as natural processes: everything around us exists in a state of constant metamorphosis — between stability and disappearance, between the material and the imagined.
This is a space for reflecting on the possibility of finding refuge within impermanence — of seeing the garden not as a secluded place, but as a living condition of both inner and outer environments, where human, architecture, and nature enter into dialogue.
The project explores how our perception of space shifts when the familiar urban form becomes porous, fluid, and reflective. The city, as a living organism, breathes, forgets, and overgrows.
It is important for me to show that the perception of the city itself is as fragile and changeable as natural processes: everything around us exists in a state of constant metamorphosis — between stability and disappearance, between the material and the imagined.
This is a space for reflecting on the possibility of finding refuge within impermanence — of seeing the garden not as a secluded place, but as a living condition of both inner and outer environments, where human, architecture, and nature enter into dialogue.
