DINO REENACT 

Digital printing, 2014 

Dino revisits two of my earliest passions — drawing and dinosaurs. Working with the collection of the Paleontological Museum of Moscow, I re-created my childhood sketches by hand and transferred them onto photographs of the museum’s skulls. In this process, the act of drawing becomes a kind of re-enactment: a way to fold the imagination of a child back into the adult space of institutional science.

The series stages a collision between the “naive” and the “analytical”: a child’s encyclopedia knowledge against the authority of a museum archive. Yet both turn out to be unstable. Many of the displayed fossils are themselves casts or unverified objects, just as the childhood drawings are imperfect reconstructions from memory. This tension unsettles the supposed clarity of knowledge and authenticity. What do we actually see — a specimen, a copy, or an invention? Dino moves in the unstable zone between memory, science, and imagination.