Exhibition 360 and 5

The concept is based on a comparison of two cyclical structures: 360 degrees of circle as a reflection of an ideal, universal system, and 365 days of calendar year as a form of organization of time, which is perceived as a natural norm. However, this «natural» cycle contains five «excess» units that fall out of the ideal pattern. They keep our time system functional — and at the same time light up its artificiality, incompleteness, mobility. These five units make it clear that even the familiar and seemingly «natural» structures, such as the calendar, are actually created by man. They are neither perfect nor universal; they have gaps, inconsistencies, residues. These five units show that the system is always a design. It’s like they’re lighting up the standards we’re used to.

The work at the exhibition explores ways in which you can see a break in the conventional system, see its conditionalness and mobility. The world does not exist for us as an abstract scheme; it is always given to us through physical experience: through how we feel it, how we move in it, how light, sound, temperature, gravity affect us. The work in the exhibition changes the perception of space through visual images, replaces reality with virtual space, questioning reality. They focus on the language, signs and meanings that shape our thinking and examine the inconsistency of shape and content, showing how such failures open up new possibilities for rethinking these systems. The universality of the scientific language is also called into question, demonstrating that it is also a social construct embedded in a particular cultural system.

01 02 Zarmin Kuropatov «Trofei» 03 Zarmin Kuropatonova «Long Forest» 04 Alina Matveyev «Tak Coming» 05 Olga Mahno Po-TEE-WEET 06 Diane Narania «Zirk» 07 Catherine Senatilla «Detail» 08 Yekaterina Senaska «Remembering Childhood» 09 Arina Smirnova decode me gently 10 Oldman’s wife «The Simplest Surrealistic Act» 11 Elena Tormasheva «Sortler» 12 Anna Chapkina «Stop Space»

Zarina Kuropatov Trophie, 2024 paintings, mirrorwork series on mirrors distorts space: mirror surfaces show trophies — horns removed from their natural context. Their reflections multiply, overlap with each other, creating a recursive sequence in which the boundaries between the object and its reflection are erased. The mirror becomes not just a reflecting surface, but an environment for breaking space, fixing multiple states and angles at the same time. The viewer is placed inside a system of displacements, gaps and reflections that emphasize the value of any design of space.

Diana Narania Circus, 2024 VRs, video 360 «Circus» explores the duality and absurdity of human existence, where rejected characters become heroes, and irony and absurdity protect us from fear of an inevitable end. Using the 360° format, the work creates a hypnotic perception where reality and fantasy overlap. The theme refers to hidden, undetected elements of the system, identifying them as the basis for existence, despite their absurdity and imperfections.

Elena Tormasheva Sortler, 2024 plywood, acrylic paint, mirror film, 150×150×150 cm Work is a large cube with cutters resembling the silhouettes of human figures. The viewer is asked to walk through them, physically facing the shape boundaries. This object sends it to a child-classer toy, where each figure must correspond to a well-defined opening. The artist meditates on how a person strives throughout his life to «bend himself» to social norms that shape the framework of a comfortable environment and the boundaries of «normality» accepted by the majority. If the uniform doesn’t match, you don’t miss, you get stuck, or you have to change to pass. The work offers the viewer a physical experience of this tension between the individual form and the external conformity requirement.

Arin Smirnova decode me gently, 2025 Video 04>12 Thoughts to be formulated need to be deciphered in some sign system. And at this moment, a swamp-dum of senses and senses of mind measurement is being cut off by the symbol of a system of signs and symbols. decode me gently is a poetic reflection of what remains behind the word and what cannot be artifacted, but continues to sound in trembling, pause, breathing. Through the text, voice and movement, the author explores the boundaries of the language by recording how the feeling becomes a language and what is lost when translated into a sign system.

Caterina Senatskaya Details, 2024 Ceramics, series of 3 sculptures, «Dethalie», represents the remainder as a meaningful part of the whole. The increased ceramic fragments from IKEA manuals, taken out of their functional context, become symbols of imperfections embedded in the structure of any system. Even in the most reconciled of them, the remainder may be not a mistake, but a consequence of the interaction of order and chaos, human logic, and the unpredictability of life.