Kirill Savchenkov

His practice often deals with themes of memory and relations between the city space and human mentality, exploring various aspects of life in suburbia, contemporary information streams and the way they affect subcultures and communities.

[1] In December 2015 – January 2016 he presented his Horizon Community Workshop project—a series of seminars, where he acted as a coach teaching visitors survival techniques— at the Agency of Singular Investigations (ASI), CCI Fabrika.

In the words of curator and critic Anastasia Fyodorova, ‘based on the artist’s childhood and teenage memories, and his analysis of the failed utopian ideology [of the Soviet Union], Atlas and Anabasis explore the post-Soviet suburbia: the spaces at the periphery of cities, which are easily recognizable by their standardized housing estates.’[4] As Savchenkov himself explains, 'many people find suburban landscapes sterile and anonymous, and I wanted to disprove that.

'[5] Similar spaces and phenomena were explored in Savchenkov's earlier two-part project Anabasis (2013), which consisted of a series of walks in Bitsevsky Park and an exhibition in a former Cinema Hall in a Yasenevo.

[6] AMOK, Savchenkov's graduation project at the Rodchenko Art School, presented at the MAMM exhibition Without Exception, was devoted to serial murders that had taken place in Moscow suburbs and consisted of found images mixed with the artist's own photographs in a single visual stream.