ARCHITECTURAL IMPRINTS

A series of textile prints, created using the LUT technique (photo transfer printing onto fabric), documents the surviving Constructivist buildings in the Sokol district of Moscow.

This work is deeply connected to rhythm. To a primary rhythm — an architectural one. The clear, fragmented rhythms of Constructivist facades: the repetition of balconies, window openings, silhouette lines. This rigid, programmatic rhythm of utopia is the foundation I, as an artist, adopt and reinterpret. But in the process of printing and manual finishing, another, organic rhythm emerges — the rhythm of the material itself. The project becomes a point of intersection for these two pulsations: the machine rhythm of architectural form and the living, breathing rhythm of the natural material — cotton fabric and pigment. The manual finishing of the prints is executed using colors from the palette of Mikhail Matyushin's "A Reference Book of Color."

Fragments of buildings, transferred onto viscose, remind us: even the most radical utopias grow according to the same laws as trees. The Sokol district in the 1920s was surrounded by forests — now it is a concrete island. And the work with rhythm in this project is an attempt to find a common pulse, a hidden resonance between the geometry of thought and the living, continuous pulsation of matter, between the challenge once thrown at nature and its quiet, unstoppable answer, emerging through the fabric of time.