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Human consciousness is ambivalent. Left and right, dark and light. Good is opposite to bad. One who perceives the world in such a way might be compared to a person riding on a merry-go-round. Events are repeated. This installation is about freedom. Man is free to compare things with each other, trying to understand what those things mean. Everything is a game. Once you realize that life is like a merry-go-round.
Maxim Svishiov meda artist, sculptor, curator, he was born in 1982 in Leningrad.
Maxim Svishёv is an artist from Russia, whose creative activity is related with computer graphic and animation. The works are kind of gameplay with space that turns out to be a window into a new reality created by mix of video content, volume and sound. Maxim finds his own patterns and icons and uses creative technologies to implement his ideas. His artworks were presented in different exhibition projects all over the world: New York, Blois, Torino, Sao-Paulo, Berlin, Seoul, Venice, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kiev and Perm. He is the winner of Sergey Kuryokhin's prize, the nominated artist for "Innovation" prize award and owns a special prize of the French Embassy - the "Innovation" award. Lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia.