MOTHERLAND SLEEPS
Motherland Sleeps is a quiet, fragmented visual diary shaped by moments of inner suspension — when language disappears, time slows, and the body holds still beneath a heavy silence.
In these images, the homeland is no longer a place, but a body — fragile, muted, drifting in a dense, uncertain fog. There are no outcries here, no action — only outlines, shadows, and traces. Each drawing speaks of inertia, waiting, of land that has held its breath.
The title evokes a sense of absence, of a homeland not simply asleep, but forgotten, silenced, or unreachable. Through minimal gestures and delicate lines, the series creates a space of emotional stillness, where memory becomes ash and grief is held not through depiction, but through what is missing.
These works are not illustrations of events, but reflections of internal states — helplessness, fracture, the fragile architecture of the psyche. Motherland Sleeps offers a form of quiet witnessing, a record of what trembles beneath the surface when everything else becomes still.
2022-2023

D001 - YANAUL TRAIN STATION CHURCH, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY+MARKER), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D002. MOSCOW GRANDMA, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D003 - MOSCOW KREMLIN, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D004 - SMOKING MAN, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D005 - TOBOLSK RUINS, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D006 - NEW TRETYAKOV GALLERY PHONE, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D007 - SPB COUPLE, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D008 - NN GUYS, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY+PEN+MARKER), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D009 - CHURCH AND WORKERS, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY+PENSIL), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D010 -KOKETKA, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY),\ 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D011 - TATAR BABOUCHKA, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D012 - KING OF MEDITATION, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D013 - TATAR KREMLIN, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY+MARKER), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D014 - PRAYER IN THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D015 - KAZAN FLEA MARKET, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D016 - ICONOGRAPHER, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D017 - KUL SHARIF MOSQUE IS SAFE AND SECURE, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D018 - FOR WHAT?, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D019 - SNOW ON COMMUNISTS, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN

D020 - JOIN YOUR OWN, 2023, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (C-PRINT+ ACRYLIC+SPRAY), 42X30CM // 16,5X11,8 IN