From the Costume Shop project

In the project, Nikita Pirumov acts as the production designer of a non-existent play, where paintings become its scenic elements. The artist focuses on the process of bodily or biological metamorphosis. Pirumov considers the physical shell as a prop or background for a story about a “decoration man," a form without content. On canvases, the image of a person is in the center of the plot, but inside the exhibition it takes on different meanings. The characters of the works — randomly found on the web or people they meet — pass through the visual filter of the artist and move away from their original source, becoming figures that are shuffled and redefined by him to new roles and positions of the conventional narrative.