Andrei Pokrovskii's (born in 1996, Moscow, Russia) work deals primarily with the image of space and the process of establishing a relationship with location. Shaping the environment as a theatrical stage where decorations control the actors, Polrovskii utilises the bits of narrative as a vehicle for altering and emphasizing the perception of place.
Read MoreCharacters serve as an extension of landscape and perform fragments of an obscure play - its gestures, incompleteness and fragmentariness serve as a starting point and invitation for entrance. Wooden surfaces of the paintings, panels and sculpted details which often accompany Andrei's work symbolise the growing embryos of paintings interior - elements of architecture, furniture and vegetation, which expand the painting beyond its borders, making the work an artifact of the place it depicts.
Text courtesy Osnova gallery.
