Hide and Seek (11.09-27.09)

'Hide and Seek' is a duo exhibition of two artists — Yuliya Latysheva and Anastasia Ivanova — an intermedia dialogue between abstract painting and photography. In the diptychs on show, what is born on the canvas as free gesture and color takes flesh in the photograph — in the texture of stone, root, crack. Each pair is linked by a hidden sign — an "emoji" the viewer looks for both in the painting and in nature; the passive observer becomes an explorer, and the boundary between abstraction and reality dissolves.

The project grew out of the lockdowns of 2020–2021, when on-screen communication replaced live contact and the emoji became a universal language of closeness at a distance: 'Hide and Seek' asks what happens to meaning when it detaches from the body and dissolves into a stream of signs.