Self-portrait Rooms (2023)
Self-portrait Rooms (2023) is a multidisciplinary collage that investigates trauma and meaning-making in audio-visual practices. At the same time, the project examines the potential of self-portraiture as a tool to heal the 'wounds of mind’ and explores the relationships between digital and analogue technologies with the importance of active perception in one's artistic practice.
The project is a result of his ongoing research on the exploration of tacit dimensions in creativity. While playing around with various themes and ideas related to his background Ilya tries to go as deep as it is possible into the origins of his aesthetic perception. With the help of Tarkovsky's metaphor as a ‘self-contained entity which disintegrates when one tries to grasp it’ he brings personal background to self-reflect on it by working with elusive imagery.
Through an act of personal reflection, Ilya explores his most painful emotions to express them via intuitive experiments with modular systems and various samplers used as a source field recording from his hometown Minsk and London. It represents the establishment of a deep communication process within practical and theoretical research.
This project was exhibited as a part of A Pluriversal Volume (2023) group show that took place at Dilston Gallery, London (30.11.2023 - 03.12.2023).