Kherson Files
Images created with artificial intelligence respond to the Kakhovka dam disaster. Flooded interiors and impossible landscapes convey the rupture of everyday life through a method Igor Gusev calls neuromodernism.
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L’amour de précision ou la troisième guerre mondiale
An exhibition of Igor Gusev’s work responding to war through visual puzzles and apocalyptic imagery. The project considers imagination as a way to confront rapidly changing realities and the psychological experience of war.
Two forms of testimony
World War III
Drawings on old book covers form the other part of the exhibition. Alongside digital images appears a physical object with its own history: a book whose surface becomes the site of a new commentary.
About the project
Igor Gusev’s visual puzzles and apocalyptic fantasies respond to a reality that war changes almost daily. His method of “neuromodernism” uses the collision of images to make these shifts visible, turning imagination into a means of examining the conditions in which we live.
The curatorial text begins with an uncomfortable proposition: history offers little support for treating peace as humanity’s natural state. Knowledge of aggression, violence, weapons and the consequences of war is deeply embedded in contemporary civilisation. The question is what we do with that knowledge, and whether we can use it to think beyond the expectations that have failed us.
In this context, imagination is neither a distraction nor an escape. It becomes a way to confront psychological terror, anticipate change and resist the paralysis of surprise. Gusev’s works hold catastrophe and visual absurdity together, asking how an image can help us recognise a world whose rules are continually being rewritten.