Debut, 2019-2021

The project is dedicated to my beloved son.
“I close my eyes to see.” Paul Gauguin
We never know what is beyond our minds. What are the boundaries of understanding of the reality? Or
maybe it is the fiction of our imagination? As Garry Kasparov once said “chess are the torment of
reason”. There are so many options of development of the events in the world and it can be very well
traced on a chessboard. After three moves on each side, more than nine million possible positions appear.
In the world of the subconscious the boundaries are erased, you become the part of something
unconscious and uncontrollable, where the player can suddenly become a figure and his path will be a
square on a chessboard.
My son has been playing chess since he was four years old. Constant hours of training and
championships reflect on him as long uncontrolled conversations while sleeping. Sometimes you can hear
the flow of the chess game, and sometimes it is an internal cry of a losing player. There are also absurd
tories through a dream, you can only guess the plot or try to imagine what really happens on a
subconscious level through elusive dreams. This illusion is difficult to describe in words, so you can only
try to show it through the lens.