Starting from September 28, as part of joint exhibitions with the PESKI space, the second solo project of St. Petersburg photographer Alexander Chernogryov will open.

In the PESKI space, works from the "Simple Things" series created in the photogram technique will be shown.

The picture of peaceful life is erased, and the objects in Alexander Chernogryov's photograms acquire a new status, are reassigned. Torn from their everyday context, they erase the boundary between the real and the artistic. They become an ornament for the masses.

These are works in which "nothingness" becomes the main and manifested element. These "simple things" seem frozen between the wretchedly routine and the most essential existential. Before us is yet another attempt to look into the essence of things.

The "Simple Things" series was originally conceived as a photography project for children, but it became a kind of personal ABC book for the artist.

"The familiar things, which I had long stopped paying attention to, surprised me again, as they once did, in early childhood". (A. Chernogryvov)

The trace of cultural memory that the artist speaks of manifests in his photograms as a game or struggle of form and color. Any image should be viewed "as a game of white against black." The photographs contain hierarchy, domination, weakness, frustration, the presence of rhythm, in the end, dance, life, but also death.

Exhibition working hours: 28.09 – 27.10.2025

Saturday — Sunday from 16:00 to 20:00 by appointment by phone +7 921 945 58 55.

Address: Saint Petersburg, 3rd Sovetskaya St. 7