Synthetic Daydream is a project exploring phantom tactility and corporeality within contemporary conditions, where touch becomes fragmented, vulnerable and increasingly replaced by artificial forms of interaction.
The project examines how everyday objects can acquire bodily qualities and evoke physical responses to the artificial as if it were alive. These forms do not function as substitutes for the body, but rather as its extension, echo or fantasy — a synthetic daydream unfolding throughout the day.
The project consists of a series of tactile, reproducible objects designed for touch and interaction, alongside video works that exaggerate and intensify the experience of contact. The interaction oscillates between desire, awkwardness, care and curiosity. Materials associated with the body and its substitutes are used in the work, including silicone, hair and plastic.
Synthetic Daydream is currently developing as a diploma project.
The visual research that informs the project is already available as an e-book in both English and Russian.Read here.
The project examines how everyday objects can acquire bodily qualities and evoke physical responses to the artificial as if it were alive. These forms do not function as substitutes for the body, but rather as its extension, echo or fantasy — a synthetic daydream unfolding throughout the day.
The project consists of a series of tactile, reproducible objects designed for touch and interaction, alongside video works that exaggerate and intensify the experience of contact. The interaction oscillates between desire, awkwardness, care and curiosity. Materials associated with the body and its substitutes are used in the work, including silicone, hair and plastic.
Synthetic Daydream is currently developing as a diploma project.
The visual research that informs the project is already available as an e-book in both English and Russian.Read here.
contemporary art exhibit project art-objects
Synthetic Daydream, 2026
installation video-art