Just as the concept of fusion plays an important role in the themes of their paintings, the visual worlds of the two artists, Oksana Simatova (1979) and Pyotr Golosapov (1982), are inseparably fused in their creative process. The sculptures created in Pyotr’s virtual studio, but without physical form, are filtered through Oksana’s imagination and become visible on the surface of her canvases. In most of the paintings, we see bodies in the process of formation, in an environment where the artificial, the human, and the natural are simultaneously present.
Powerful, saturated colors, reflective surfaces, baroque formalization, and impenetrable density are the most characteristic features of these paintings, which employ brilliant painterly solutions. The figures are often recognizable as torsos, while at other times the form acquires a recognizable body in liquid or even droplet-like melting material. Birth and decay, formation and disappearance, transience and duality are the most characteristic features of these indefinable media, which often evoke underwater worlds with their weightless floating. In the dialogue between sculptural and painterly qualities, creatures formed by nature and human or man-made figures seem to be moving towards a new, as yet non-existent common quality, where the characteristics of human, natural and mechanical forms of existence merge.