Who are you in real life? From series "Mixed Reality".

Against this cultural backdrop, ten years after the inception of the Avatar era, the Petersburg artist Gregori Maiofis has created his photographic project [Mixed Reality]... this artwork ... constructing a beautiful legend for the future, with the rebel artist as hero. However, a retrospective look at the artist's path reveals his engagement of various subjects before [Mixed Reality] was brought to the forefont... The style of Gregori Maiofis - rightfully described as 'a brilliant storyteller' - formed gradually and is based on the contrast between profane subject and highbrow art... The artist's approach to painting and video-art was connected with deconstruction of the realistic school through denial of its forms. However, when Maiofis turned to photography twenty years ago, he accepted its hyper-realism as expressed the capacity to resist identification with a depicted object and become a apparently realistic self-sufficient entity...