‘“无题” (来自系列“涟漪”)’— 叶甄妮娅·图特
Description of the “Ripple” Series
The artist creates an image on fabric by dissolving black paint. The ink seeps outward, sets itself in motion, shifts its contours, and acquires a unique color vibration. The graphic work transforms into painting. The unstable image is fixed on paper and enriched with pencil annotations that seem to sprout through color and tone. This series of graphic works is cinematic in scope, alternating between close-ups and long shots. It tells a story that can be read in any direction.
Key Conceptual Connections:
Expanding a “women’s script” through the liquid, bodily gesture of dissolving ink.
Embodying corporeality and minor movements—from classical calligraphy to choreography.
Employing an architectural approach to framing and a spatial “cinema-graphic” method to restore the experience of duration.
Seeking ways to evade total transparency: a metaphor of dissolving boundaries and tangled forms.
Materializing movement and time within a static object.
Using a nonlinear, fragmentary narrative as a response to digital information overload.
Rejecting the “transparent” society of efficiency in favor of the irrational, the hidden gesture.
Slowing perception and cultivating attention as an antidote to “fast” network time.
Materializing interference and the “glitch”—a reaction to promises of digital seamlessness and infinite streaming.
Returning to physical density and subjective intent as a critique of post-Internet fetishes of screens and pixels.
Born on 1982 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Evgenia Tut (b. 1982). She lives and works in Saint Petersburg. In 2006 she graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering with a degree in Architecture. Since 2018 she has maintained an active artistic practice and regularly participates in exhibitions. In 2022 she completed the Rodchenko School’s Kirill Savchenkov Transmedia Laboratory.
Her career highlights include participation in the Ars Electronica festival (2021); a residency at the GES-2 Center for Art Production “Svody,” V-A-C Foundation, Moscow (2022); and a nomination for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the “Best Work of Contemporary Art” category (2023). She is the author of the non-commercial solo project “1024,” supported by the Limonov Art Fondation (2024), and of the solo exhibition “Slow Shores” at MMOMA (2025). In 2025 she also took part in the main project of the International Ecobiennale “Skin of the Earth.” Evgenia Tut is the founder of the artists’ program “Tut Workshop.”
Her works are held in museum, private, and corporate collections, including the State Russian Museum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Limonov Art Fondation, Ru Art’s Foundation, Swan Hellenic, and others.
Artist’s Statement
In my projects, I explore questions about the digital future and methods of evading total transparency. I expand the practice of “women’s writing” and “minor gestures”. My work actualizes the act of writing and employs spatial means to convey artistic statements. My creative method has been shaped by my architectural background, the study of classical calligraphy, and dance, as well as by an interest in archaic consciousness and nonverbal information transmission. I experiment with various techniques, working in graphics, painting, installations, and objects.
