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︎ ILYA MARTYNOV ︎

Dissolution
video
8’44’’
2026

Within this audiovisual field, the erotic image undergoes a process of aesthetic repression, whereby the body forfeits its status as an object of contemplation and is transformed into a Lacanian trace of desire — the objet petit a. Ravel’s music, operating as a form of sublimation, organises the flow of libidinal energy into an intricate orchestral architecture, whilst the visual blur shifts representation into a state of perceptual deficit. Their interplay does not produce an image of love, but rather the structure of desire as such — perpetually incomplete, constantly displaced, and fundamentally resistant to final symbolisation.

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SELF-PORTRAIT

3D printing
2025

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The Last Day of Pompeii_2025
video
04’43’’

An experimental film that balances between dream and reality, the everyday flow of random encounters and symbols. Through collage aesthetics, unexpected chronicle, and fragmented scenes, the author explores the sense of randomness in our lives—and poses a provocative question: what if it’s all a prewritten script? What if there is no such thing as reality, fate, or chance at all?




Internal Anxiety
canvas, acrylic, oil sticks
150x200
2024

The series is united by common motifs of emotional tension, and the subjects of the paintings are domestic scenes. Their deformed bodies, strange costumes, pseudo-rituals and tears flowing from their eyes convey the inner drama of a person immersed in an absurd reality.