contemporary art photography
Red-and-white safety tape appears throughout the city as a quick tool of restriction, attached to fences, trees, poles and buildings. Installed without consideration for the surrounding environment, it subtly redraws the urban landscape. A simple line redirects movement and marks temporary borders. Fragile yet authoritative, the tape regulates behaviour while signalling the presence of potential danger.
Within the photographic series this line moves between urban space and the body, shifting from a spatial marker to a bodily constraint. The project reflects on the condition of living alongside an anticipated but invisible threat, where warning signs remain present and everyday life continues within quiet limitations. In this way the urban environment begins to mirror broader emotional and political atmospheres shaped by instability and conflict.
At the centre of the installation, a transparent block of ice functions as a material metaphor for this suspended threat — something known, expected, yet impossible to fully control.
Within the photographic series this line moves between urban space and the body, shifting from a spatial marker to a bodily constraint. The project reflects on the condition of living alongside an anticipated but invisible threat, where warning signs remain present and everyday life continues within quiet limitations. In this way the urban environment begins to mirror broader emotional and political atmospheres shaped by instability and conflict.
At the centre of the installation, a transparent block of ice functions as a material metaphor for this suspended threat — something known, expected, yet impossible to fully control.
exhibit project art-objects
State Of Caution, 2026
The photographic series is presented as a grid of images installed on the wall. At the centre of the installation a sculptural object — a transparent block of ice produced with a 3D printer — is placed on the floor and partially wrapped with red-and-white safety tape.
The object extends the visual language of the photographs into physical space, transforming the warning line into a material form.
The object extends the visual language of the photographs into physical space, transforming the warning line into a material form.
Exhibition Design:
The photographs were taken during a winter storm in Moscow. Snow, wind and poor visibility shaped the conditions of the shoot. The air was filled with moving snow particles, which appear in the images as soft noise and diffused light. Colours became muted, shadows almost disappeared, and the red safety tape remained the most vivid element in the frame.
During this time a warning message from the emergency service was sent to residents, announcing severe weather conditions and advising people to stay indoors. Althought the message reached me only after the storm had already passed.
The experience of moving through the city in these unstable conditions unexpectedly echoed the central idea of the project — the feeling of navigating space under a constant anticipation of danger. In this environment the storm, the warning systems and the fragile red lines of tape converge, forming a landscape shaped by the quiet anticipation of danger.
During this time a warning message from the emergency service was sent to residents, announcing severe weather conditions and advising people to stay indoors. Althought the message reached me only after the storm had already passed.
The experience of moving through the city in these unstable conditions unexpectedly echoed the central idea of the project — the feeling of navigating space under a constant anticipation of danger. In this environment the storm, the warning systems and the fragile red lines of tape converge, forming a landscape shaped by the quiet anticipation of danger.
Behind the Work:
