Aleksandr Gordeev

Aleksandr Gordeev

Moscow, Russia

Aleksandr describes his style as “sentimental rebus of survival” and names conceptual Russian poetry and the Dada movement as his inspiration. Through words and graphic symbols, both Cyrillic and Latin, he mediates on the mystery of intuition and complexity of social life.

Where is the line between selfconsciousness and unconsciousness? What do we feel when we can’t see the picture clearly or don’t understand the language? How would you describe the idea of this image if you didn’t know the clue: it consists of the repetition of the Russian letter “Я”, which means in English “me”, “myself”, “I am”?