Flowers have a history behind their beauty. From the common daisy to the graceful lily, they have accompanied human civilisation for thousands of years. Flowers have been woven into our world so deeply that they have become an integral part of human culture. In general, the flower is the perfect symbol. People look for and find within it many meanings, thousands of plots. Although flowers exist only to attract the eye, to fascinate, to enchant, to stupefy, to seduce. This is their most direct function. They deceive people, as well as many other creatures, and thus prolong their species, even if millions of flowers are deliberately grown for slaughter—for holidays and declarations of love. Plants are prepared for such collateral damage. But when you think about it: how many beautiful illusions are born in parallel to this endless biological massacre. Finally, the flower in art has become the perfect commodity. Fashions pass, trends change, directions become obsolete—but this image invariably sells. A painting with a bouquet or a single flower has become the quintessential painting. Flowers penetrate into ornaments, frame mythological or realistic subjects. They cut into still-lifes, get into portraits. In the 2000s and 2010s, flowers seeped into video as the video was shoved into every exhibition that time. Now, in the new object art, with so many non-human forms, the flower has become a frequent guest—it will clearly survive these times too. Flowers are the future, as well as the past and the present.

— Sergey Guskov