WIN WIN

The WIN-WIN fair for emerging names took place on October 10–11, 2026, at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow).

Win Win 2026

Three action-packed days at the fair. I brought three projects to my booth, each using a different technique but all united by a single theme: Memories. A home where I was once happy! It’s a large-scale mixed-media project in which layers of fabric and imagery of houses from the old part of town intertwine to form a single, cohesive pattern. Here, a window becomes a world to dive into — a place where childhood memories resurface, evoked by details like a ceramic kitchen tile or an old childhood toy.

Hand printing methods:

Litho-printing Gumbichromate

Here, the litho printing technique becomes not merely a method of printing, but a visual language of incompleteness, things left unsaid, and elusiveness. It evokes a silence and a mystery that draw one into a haze of reflection—like recalling a distant childhood and one’s family home: the place where daisies grew beneath the window, a path led into the woods, and towering pines stood guard at the forest’s edge; where laundry, washed by one’s grandmother, fluttered on the line like a flag, and an elderly neighbor’s car seemed ready to fall apart at the mere touch of an autumn breeze.

Litho-printing is a variable and unpredictable process, Hand printing methods

WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Fair, April 2026

Litho-printing is a variable and unpredictable process, where each successive developed print differs from the last. Grain, spots, undifferentiated shadows, halos, and lost details. In the context of the forest, this becomes a metaphor—for memory surfacing from oblivion, or for a dream—that state between wakefulness and slumber…