The End of St. Petersburg, or New Icarus

Конец Санкт-Петербурга или Новый Икар

Also known as Konets Sankt-Peterburga, ili Novyy Ikar, 1992

1992, the time of the Perestroika. Inspired by Vsevolod Pudovkin’s “The End of St. Petersburg” (1927), the artist chooses the Greek mythological figure of Icarus as a person falling apart from the diversity of temptations and creates a romantic performance-self-portrait.