I’ve wanted to be an artist all my life but never knew what kind — I was interested in everything: painting, advertising, and design. I still constantly experiment with techniques and mediums, reinventing my art.

We both earned a Master of Fine Arts degree and later moved into design and illustration: I became an illustrator, while Andy became an art director. Our first contemporary art exhibitions were in France and Italy, which set our course. We’ve been living in Paris for two years now and recently returned from a residency in the parallel program of the Venice Biennale, where we worked on Mechanical Sentiments and held an exhibition.

I wanted to be a scientist, but it turned out to be too difficult. So, I decided to become an artist instead. My main activities are combining different media, going beyond a single genre, and working with context and the audience.

I work with text and fragile materials like mirrors and papier-mâché. For me, text is a dual symbol of unity and misunderstanding. Recently, I’ve been enjoying creating installations and exploring new media.

Deconstruction, homages, and references. I create kinetic sculptures that engage users, inviting them to interact with both the object and the surrounding space — in galleries, on runways, and beyond. Clothing as a form of media, sculptures and installations, interaction with digital technologies and physical space.

We initially worked separately on our own ideas, helping each other at exhibitions. Eventually, we decided to collaborate in art, creating our first joint project, Mechanical Sentiments, which we plan to develop further together.

The art world. I really enjoy institutional self-reflection and homages to other artists.

The barely perceptible moments in life that fill it with unique meaning.

In 2021, I made my first experiment with 3D printing, 3D scanning, and AR. Back then, it was more of an experiment—I realized that objects don’t always look the way you expect them to, but now everything has become much easier. For 3D scanning, all you need is the smartphone with the LiDAR function.

From the beginning of my work, I started using text in art, and I’ve always been interested in how the same words are interpreted differently by people. At one of my first solo exhibitions, I used mirrors with simple phrases like "I’m doing great" or "What is going on?", which reflected fleeting emotions.

The scanning process is a kind of performance: the person stands still, not talking or smiling, and you look very closely at them.

The main advice is to test your ideas right away because perfectionism often prevents their realization. It’s better to do something imperfectly than to postpone it. The first steps don’t matter; the important thing is to keep moving forward. Only through trial can you understand what works, and it’s crucial not to stop.

Our collection is essentially "cubism" but with new tools. Picasso and cubism aimed to create an object in space by drawing it from different angles—side, top, and bottom. Our collection also uses this approach, but technology introduces its own solutions.