DOWRY _ AR _ COLLABORATION LILIYA KOVALEVSKAYA_2024-2025
The 'Dowry' project is a unique creative dialogue between the past and the present, tradition and modernity. At the heart of the phygital project is the image of a woman whose identity and self-expression are at the crossroads of Old Russian culture and the rapidly changing digital world. Using the traditional wood painting techniques of the Old Russian masters, the artist creates modern artistic images that combine elements of national identity and features of 21st century femininity. Decorative motifs inspired by historical artefacts are set against images of girls whose appearance and lifestyle reflect the influence of digital culture. The digital layer of AR reflects the daily flicker of pixels across faces from gadget screens. The patterns in the paintings are layered into levels that must be fixed in the mind, as if the viewer were in a computer game. In this way it was also possible to reflect the methods of working with silkscreen — applying the prints layer by layer.
‘Horovod’ from the series Dowry_AR
Physical painting made in silkscreen technique (oak, acrylic, silkscreen, varnish, 50×45)
‘Pridanoe’ from the series Dowry_AR
Physical painting made in silkscreen technique (oak, acrylic, silkscreen, varnish, 50×45)
Series “Dowry“_ar
Phygital project in collaboration with contemporary artist Lilia Kovalevskaya (St. Petersburg)
‘Arepey’ from the series Dowry_AR
Physical painting made in silkscreen technique (oak, acrylic, silkscreen, varnish, 50×45)
‘Bereginya’ from the series Dowry_AR
Physical painting made in silkscreen technique (oak, acrylic, silkscreen, varnish, 50×45)
NON-EXISTENT GARDEN _ AR _ COLLABORATION _ EVGENY CHASCHIKHIN _ 2024
An urban dweller is forced to live in a world rolled up in concrete — in the dullness of urbanism. How to reach the splendor of nature and its greenery? You can create your own AR gardens and fill them with flowers based on the memories of the visual artist Evgeny Chashchikhin. He collected the petals of those flowers in the world of imagination and carefully brought them to the world of art. And I, in turn, will recreate those nonexistent flowers (#nonexistentflower) and complement our reality with them, planting them in urban asphalt and architectural concrete.
ORANGE FLOWER_video art
Collaboration with Evgeny Chashchikhin, the petals are based on paintings from the NON-EXISTENT FLOWER series
NON-EXISTENT FLOWER_ar
The flowers' shapes were invented and developed in 3Ds MAX for placement in augmented reality (AR)