Andrei Pokrovskii’s (b. 1996) practice is mostly dedicated to exploring the phenomenon of space and its features. Environments of various kinds created by Pokrovskii seem dreamy, otherworldly, and theatrical. Artist’s choice of perspective, colours and hues makes a viewer to experience a feeling somewhere between nostalgia and dreaming. Scenes created by Pokrovskii appear as fragments of fleeting nature, barely telling a full story. The feeling that something is being withheld or understated seems to be an essential motive.

Space, the image of a place would be the main character and interest of Pokrovskii’s research and practice. Figures that appear in his works should be understood as elements of the whole complex unity, placed there to manipulate viewer’s experience of the environment. The artist is not only interested in examining the nature of a space itself but also proceeds to explore the relationship between his scenes and viewer’s emotions, feelings and memory.

Andrei Pokrovskii is primarily focused on painting and graphics, though, the latest series illustrate his new complicated approach to exploring the relationship between interiors and exteriors. The artist adds laser- cut plywood panels and limewood hand-sculpted elements to his paintings on a wooden surface. Such technique allows him to expand the borders of the image. Owing to wooden elements the painting is becoming more material, less illusory, getting closer to a viewer and to the image itself. Pokrovskii is willing to blur the boundaries between the work and a viewer, therefore, wooden elements and panels have an ability not only to bridge the gap between the image and a viewer but to transform the work into an artifact of the place it originally depicts.