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Alexander Tsikarishvili, the leader and co-founder of the Sever-7 group, one of the key artists of the St. Petersburg art scene of the last decade, will present his solo exhibition "Allotriophagy" at Marina Gisich Gallery. The long-term project that the artist has been working on for the past two years (the last works were created in collaboration with Lisa Tsikarishvili) has been reinterpreted, lived and mutated over time, turning from an attempt to create an impression of the present, a closed time capsule facing an imaginary future, into a chronicle of descent into the abyss of dream images.

This journey takes place in the logic of describing one's own clinical picture. The artist diagnoses himself with an inability to digest reality, which is accompanied by an irresistible urge to continue to devour it, the desire to hide it in himself.

[Allotriophagia is an eating disorder characterized by the tendency to eat inedible objects, such as glass, metal, or plastic.]

Text: Lisa Tsikarishvili