How to become invisible (2020-2023) (Copy)

“How to Become Invisible”, 2020

A series of large-scale watercolors depicting the shadows of underpaid and underrepresented cultural workers. The cultural field is very vulnerable and precarious, with a lot of unpaid labor and exploitation for the sake of being close to art. A lot of institutional staff who contributed to the process of exhibitions organization are routinely not credited and remain in the shadows. I started a series depicting the cultural workers through collaborative painting sessions. Instead of drawing realistic portraits, I focused my attention on the shadows they cast on the walls. Besides drawing, I was interested in communication with participants too and interviewed them about their working conditions.

Installation view, group exhibition “The Great Void”, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia, 2023

Photo courtesy: Ruarts Foundation