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ART021 Shanghai, 2025
November 11 - 14, 2026
Alisa Gorelova
Andrey Syaylev
Oleg Khvostov
Pseudomorphoses
As part of the ART021 fair, PA Gallery presents the project Pseudomorphoses A pseudomorph is a mineral found in a form alien to itself, assuming the guise of another mineral or organic object — a form that has outlived its own content and been filled with another's. This project brings together three artists — Oleg Khvostov, Alisa Gorelova, and Andrei Syailev — working in seemingly opposite directions. Khvostov's "Photoshopped," geometrically precise landscapes, Gorelova's entwined ecstatic bodies, and Syailev's post-ironic conceptualism together stage a kind of evolutionary theory of the image.
Oleg Khvostov captures the external attributes of landscapes — sometimes ones he has never seen himself — to construct geometrically and chromatically composed works that simulate that reality. Rather than depicting objects, he loosens our perception through familiar motifs. Unburdened by complex "readings" of meaning, the eye slides into what truly matters here: the pleasure of streamlined, idyllic forms that merely assume the appearance of recognizable things.
Alisa Gorelova, in turn, immerses herself in the physical mechanism of forming a "new body" — in the sense of something newly emerged, much as minerals form within mountains. Her works arise from a deeply personal approach to corporeality — ecstatic, mutable, genuinely alive — interwoven with various mythological motifs. All of this merges into a vitality-charged cluster of bodily and cultural experience, from which Images grow.
Andrei Syaylev constructs a recursion of mimesis, of lost and acquired meanings. His Pseudomorphoses are assembled from found objects — among them old Soviet fur hats — combined with clay and chemical mixtures of metals and oxides. Reacting together, these elements progressively transform the headwear into fantastical, almost extraterrestrial masks for remarkable creatures. The result accretes a newly formed mythology, becoming a kind of artefact — an image of either a conspiratorial past or an improbable future.
The convergence of these three artists in a single space produces a culturological dialogue on the edge of conspiracy: how an image comes into being, how it takes on life within our cultural field, and how it may ultimately escape the author's control — and begin, in turn, to direct that author.
Kirill Eltsov
Andrey Syaylev
Oleg Khvostov
Pseudomorphoses
As part of the ART021 fair, PA Gallery presents the project Pseudomorphoses A pseudomorph is a mineral found in a form alien to itself, assuming the guise of another mineral or organic object — a form that has outlived its own content and been filled with another's. This project brings together three artists — Oleg Khvostov, Alisa Gorelova, and Andrei Syailev — working in seemingly opposite directions. Khvostov's "Photoshopped," geometrically precise landscapes, Gorelova's entwined ecstatic bodies, and Syailev's post-ironic conceptualism together stage a kind of evolutionary theory of the image.
Oleg Khvostov captures the external attributes of landscapes — sometimes ones he has never seen himself — to construct geometrically and chromatically composed works that simulate that reality. Rather than depicting objects, he loosens our perception through familiar motifs. Unburdened by complex "readings" of meaning, the eye slides into what truly matters here: the pleasure of streamlined, idyllic forms that merely assume the appearance of recognizable things.
Alisa Gorelova, in turn, immerses herself in the physical mechanism of forming a "new body" — in the sense of something newly emerged, much as minerals form within mountains. Her works arise from a deeply personal approach to corporeality — ecstatic, mutable, genuinely alive — interwoven with various mythological motifs. All of this merges into a vitality-charged cluster of bodily and cultural experience, from which Images grow.
Andrei Syaylev constructs a recursion of mimesis, of lost and acquired meanings. His Pseudomorphoses are assembled from found objects — among them old Soviet fur hats — combined with clay and chemical mixtures of metals and oxides. Reacting together, these elements progressively transform the headwear into fantastical, almost extraterrestrial masks for remarkable creatures. The result accretes a newly formed mythology, becoming a kind of artefact — an image of either a conspiratorial past or an improbable future.
The convergence of these three artists in a single space produces a culturological dialogue on the edge of conspiracy: how an image comes into being, how it takes on life within our cultural field, and how it may ultimately escape the author's control — and begin, in turn, to direct that author.
Kirill Eltsov