Evgeny Antufiev & Lyubov Nalogina
Evgeny Antufiev is known for exploring the construction of myths and using symbolically charged materials that, through his distinctive juxtapositions, are transformed into elements within his own idiosyncratic world order. His immersive installations consist of archetypes within the language of myths: heroes, weapons, beasts, chalices, disguises, which together combine into a narrative structure.
Essential to the artist’s practice is the deliberate ambiguity of his works’ temporal origins; Antufiev’s choice of forms and materials convincingly take on the guise of the archaic in an attempt to disturb a linear chronology. The artist has explained, ‘I like it when an exhibition turns into an archaeological object, when you look and try to understand what these objects are for. You try to decipher the symbols. You take on the role of an archaeologist.’

marble, serpentine, malachite, cement
framed, in two parts:
158 x 112 x 4.6 cm