Port Art Fair — an annual contemporary art fair held at Sevkabell Port, which in 2026 featured the theme «blank» from May 21–24.
As part of a collaboration with Nikolay Evdokimov Gallery, posters were created for three of the gallery’s stands:
1. Nikolay Evdokimov Gallery Exhibition
2. Sergey Renuk’s Project Sursum Corda
3. «Mirror Exhibition» by Cabaret Shum
1.1 Combinatorics
The gallery combines various styles and ideas to create a new structure. In this system, the form serves as the starting point from which an infinite number of new pathways and interpretations emerge from a minimalist set of elements.
1.2 Blank Memory
The series is inspired by the work of Alice Detochkina, where visual fragments collected from scraps of memory overlap, partially dissolved and blurred, much like layers in an archaeological dig.
2.1 Doppelgänger
A series of two posters for the «Mirror Exhibition» at Cabaret Shum explores the duality of the human image through figures of two-headed animals. It is impossible to determine where the authentic image resides and where its constructed, expected, or digital version is located. They may coincide, argue with each other, or gradually interchange positions.
2.2 Blind Spot
The poster is built upon the very mechanics of the mirror. The central dark purple spot functions like a blind spot: something stares at you from it—something you cannot name yourself.
2.3 Introduction
The poster is built around the image of a fingerprint, the makeup residue left on a napkin. It serves as an alternative to a mirror—a fragile surface that does not reflect the person directly, but preserves a fragment of them.
2.4 Tears
The poster takes Selena Iso’s work, «Tears Fall from the Heavens,» and compresses it into one giant eye. The tears become a trace of emotional reaction to another person’s gaze—an anticipation of approval and the inability to perfectly align with one’s own image.
3.1 Verticality
In the series of posters for the Sursum corda project, the principle of translating the artist’s work through vertical color lines, reduced to a rhythm of stripes, is employed. The liturgical «lift up our hearts» transforms into a directional gaze.
