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︎ ILYA MARTYNOV ︎
SELF-PORTRAIT

3D printing
2025

VIDEO

 
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?



VIMEO
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.









Yellow series (Europa)
canvas, acrylic, oil, spray paint
2/50x70, 1/40x50
2024

the series consists of three works on a yellow background, united by the theme of inner conflict and mental repression, showing different aspects of a person's struggle with severe internal states: from the feeling of unbearable stress, suppression of expression and desires, to feelings of hopelessness and threat. the works illustrate psychoanalytic concepts of guilt, repressed fear of internal and external destructive mechanisms.