Alexey Salmanov

Alexey Salmanov

Alexey was born in 1976. He is the winner of Pinchuk Art Centre Special Prize 2009 for the young Ukrainian artists. Salmanov graduated law faculty of the International Solomon University in Kyiv in 1998. He completed an internship at Olafur Eliasson’s studio in Berlin in 2010 under the aegis of Pinchuk Art Centre Special Prize 2009. He works with photograph, video, objects and installations, site-specific and street art, performative practices also. Alexey is participant of exhibitions, residencies and other projects in Ukraine and abroad. He lives and works in Kyiv and Odessa, Ukraine.

About Work

Alexey considers this humorous performative gesture as an opportunity to support the community with some fun and positive vibe in hard times of the quarantine isolation . Actually this project was planned to be performed in collaboration with another artist before the quarantine in Kyiv, Ukraine, started since the 18th of March 2020. But the new “era” of isolation made him perform it all alone. Nonsensical kicking the wasted graffiti can in the “post apocalyptic” environment perfectly reflects the current mood of the community when people can’t follow a normative routine. “Everything is lost” and there’s nothing to do but doing something weird and with no sense.

You can follow his work on Instagram: @salmanovalexey

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