Andy Usov

Multidisciplinary artist

Andrey Usov,
Saint Petersburg,
37 years old

Artist Staitment



My artistic practice focuses on the absurdity of everyday life, where routine actions, social norms and people's interaction with the world around them are revealed in the context of absurdism. Ordinariness becomes a field for exploring the contradictions, meaninglessness and irony of contemporary existence. I address the ways in which habitual rituals, urban environments and environmental concerns reflect the underlying contradiction between the human desire for order and the chaotic nature of the world in which they exist. I focus on the material embodiment of absurdity in everyday life, revealing how it manifests itself in concrete gestures, rituals and human interactions with the world around us. In contrast to a purely philosophical or aesthetic approach, I view the paradoxicality of human existence as a living process that can be observed, recorded and experienced in real situations. Through the transformation of everyday actions into symbolic acts, images emerge that reveal deeper processes. Through Walking art, documentation and typologies, I reveal hidden connections between the personal and the collective, the natural and the urban. My works invite the viewer to reflect on how their own actions and inactions shape the surrounding reality.

Portfolio
‘Traces of the everyday’ (from March 2023)
Work in progress
The project is an artistic statement that explores the boundaries of the everyday and the existential, the material and the ephemeral. Using the walk as my main method, I transform the everyday into an act of observation, witnessing and recording time. These itineraries - spontaneous yet deeply reflective - intertwine elements of chance and personal choice, revealing the individual's relationship with space, memory
and history.

I refuse to see territory as a neutral space. Instead, I rethink it as a layer of historical and social layering, where every action - from a simple step to a glance - becomes an affirmation of presence.
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‘Scooping to Dry’
Performance/Walking-art/Documentation
Krasnenkaya Antibiennale 2024 St. Petersburg
In this artwork, I address the topic of ecological crisis through the physical act of transferring water between two rivers with opposite currents. Using a randomiser to make decisions, I emphasise the randomness and duality of human efforts that can both prevent and exacerbate disaster. This process becomes a symbol of the absurdity of human endeavour in the context of global problems.

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‘Demolish Not Leave’
Participatory installation
Narvskaya Zastava: Fixation/Fiction
Prographika 2024 St. Petersburg.

In this installation, I address the theme of urban change by inviting the viewer to place a comma in a fictitious vote on the fate of the Narva Zastava neighbourhood. This gesture becomes a metaphor for the collective responsibility and uncertainty one faces in the contemporary world. The work emphasises how absurdity manifests itself in making decisions that seem important but in reality lack clear meaning.


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