STILL MAGIC

Oleg Shkryabin, Arina Sukhankina, Alexander Portyanko, Maxim Maslov, Marina Ryabceva, Kirill Tashev, Andrey Belyaev

At Redkie Iskusstva, Saint Petersburg

November 13 — December 06, 2021

Photography by Arina Sukhankina

“Everything that works magically is incomprehensible, and the incomprehensible often works magically. One calls incomprehensible workings magical. The magical always surrounds me, always involves me. It opens spaces that have no doors and leads out into the open where there is no exit. The magical is good and evil and neither good nor evil. Magic is dangerous since what accords with unreason confuses, allures and provokes; and I am always its first victim.”

—  Carl Gustav Jung, Red Book

“One day, when thousands of shiny snowflakes were slowly sliding down from cracked roof, dog wrote a poem about a Snowy Man. His sacred prayer was barely heard from the opened fridge.”

Installation view
Oleg Shkryabin, Star Burial, 2021, metal, leather belt, carnations, paper, plastic glass, epoxy resin
Oleg Shkryabin, Star Burial (details), 2021, metal, leather belt, carnations, paper, plastic glass, epoxy resin
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Scarecrow — The First Heard Melody, 2021, digital collage printed on paper, frame
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Scarecrow — The First Heard Melody, 2021, digital collage printed on paper, frame
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Ear Muffs, Gromilka and the Grains of Wind, 2021, papier mache, gel pen, bandages, hair, pastel, wooden key box, wax, candles, clay, pyrography, pencil
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Ear Muffs, Gromilka and the Grains of Wind (details), 2021, papier mache, gel pen, bandages, hair, pastel, wooden key box, wax, candles, clay, pyrography, pencil
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Ear Muffs, Gromilka and the Grains of Wind (details), 2021, papier mache, gel pen, bandages, hair, pastel, wooden key box, wax, candles, clay, pyrography, pencil
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Ear Muffs, Gromilka and the Grains of Wind (details), 2021, papier mache, gel pen, bandages, hair, pastel, wooden key box, wax, candles, clay, pyrography, pencil
Arina Sukhankina & Alexander Portyanko, Ear Muffs, Gromilka and the Grains of Wind (details), 2021, papier mache, gel pen, bandages, hair, pastel, wooden key box, wax, candles, clay, pyrography, pencil
Installation view
Maksim Maslov & Marina Ryabceva, Untitled, 2021, branches, jute rope, nails, cotton fabric, threads, hay
Maksim Maslov & Marina Ryabceva, Untitled (details), 2021, branches, jute rope, nails, cotton fabric, threads, hay
Maksim Maslov & Marina Ryabceva, T (details), 2021, print on matte photo paper, paper envelope
Maksim Maslov & Marina Ryabceva, T (details), 2021, print on matte photo paper, paper envelope
Maksim Maslov & Marina Ryabceva, Untitled, 2021, branches, jute rope, nails, cotton fabric, threads, hay
Installation view
Outside — Oleg Shkryabin, Past Pleasure, 2021, clay, concrete, metal wire, epoxy resin, wine cork. Inside — Oleg Shkryabin, Smels like carrots, 2020, rusty tin can, ceramic figurine, sticker.
Oleg Shkryabin, Past Pleasure, 2021, clay, concrete, metal wire, epoxy resin, wine cork
Oleg Shkryabin, Past Pleasure (details), 2021, clay, concrete, metal wire, epoxy resin, wine cork
Oleg Shkryabin, Past Pleasure (details), 2021, clay, concrete, metal wire, epoxy resin, wine cork
Oleg Shkryabin, Smells like carrots, 2020, rusty tin can, ceramic figurine, sticker, can opener
Oleg Shkryabin, Smells like carrots (details), 2020, rusty tin can, ceramic figurine, sticker, can opener
Oleg Shkryabin, Dog write a poem, 2021, pencil, oil pastel on paper, wooden door
Oleg Shkryabin, Dog write a poem, 2021, pencil, oil pastel on paper, wooden door
Installation view
Kirill Tashev, Moloko, clay, paraffin, candle, 2021
Andrey Belyaev, The Allegory of Gratitude, 2021, blueballpen on paper
Andrey Belyaev, The Allegory of Gratitude (details), 2021, blueballpen on paper