More proof that the Earth is flat

The exhibition title itself does not serve as a direct manifesto of the artist's beliefs. However, it is deeply relevant to both the exhibition itself and the artist's individual works, becoming a tool for meaning-making. Ishonin's primary mediums are wit and paradox, dissecting the complexity of the everyday. Like many key figures in contemporary art, he cultivates his poetics of the everyday, working with recognizable, often marginal materials: pills and pharmaceutical packaging, pencils, watches, inconspicuous stones, and other "trifles" granted the status of artifacts. His universe is a world of micro-installations, each a capsulated glimpse of an absurd drama or minor tragedy. Collected together, they form a strikingly fragile, self-ironic materialization of the absurdity of existence, in the spirit of Albert Camus's existential reflections.This series of artifacts convincingly visualizes the essence of an "unremarkable genius"—a figure both universal and unique, whose ways of understanding the world through small scale and playing with conventions prove incredibly resonant and poignant. Ishonin's exhibition at the KCCA becomes a space where the everyday micro-world acquires macro-meaning through the prism of artistic alchemy and philosophical questioning. Curator: Sergei Katran Exhibition design and visual code development: dk-community architectural bureau Post design: Andrey Alekseev Alexander Danilov 18+

Published on March 14, 2026