2014–2018 → Sever-7

Having graduated from the Academy at 23, I knew absolutely nothing about contemporary art. I began to move in that direction only later, when my mentor Andrey Pakhomov invited me to take part in his experimental workshop and teach in the graphics department of the Academy. Most significantly, it was at this point I came across the members of the art group Sever-7 (North-7) – Nestor Engelke, Alexander Tsikarishvili and Nestor Kharchenko – or, to be precise, renewed my contact with them from the times of the Art School. Soon after, the guys launched the Sever-7 art space in Nikolsky Lane. Exhibitions, performances, parties – all this excited me. I began to draw these events. I looked at everything that I did and had been taught at the Academy from this novel perspective.