This exhibition is an experiment.
Five artists from Uzbekistan and Russia chose not to wait for invitations — they created the exhibition themselves. No assigned theme, no external selection, no “this is not allowed,” entirely by their own efforts.

More often it works differently: there is a starting point — a theme, a gallery, or a curator — that determines the content. This is normal. But in our case the process unfolded the other way around: the artists themselves selected the works they wanted to show and the ideas they wanted to express. The curator then organized these works into a shared conceptual space. The gallery opened its doors to a fully formed vision.

Any experiment has a hypothesis. Ours was this: if you give artists freedom, their works will naturally gather around fundamental, archetypal themes — the ones that concern every human being. And that is exactly what happened: all works relate to one of the five central directions — Identity, Community, Conflict, Myths and Space. Welcome!