EXHIBITION
The Great Sleep (In Search of the Star)
13.12.2025 – 20.01.2026
Slava Nesterov
ABOUT
With a resinous tread, the night seeps through the treetops, unveiling its feline eye. Its dim light spreads across the earth and reveals a winding path — a jagged scar on the body of the slumbering world. The light congeals on the pitch-black canvas of the sky, and its ghostly spray drips in patches, like milk spilled on black velvet. Everything — from the threshold to God — is filled with this viscous, soundless darkness.
I would sing you a song, quiet as the rustle of fallen leaves, so it would catch your sorrow and carry it to other lands. But where there is no "close," there is no "far" either.
I am alone. We are alone, like this moon. Between us — the night, black and absolute, like the pupil of a blind man.
So fall asleep. Plunge into a dream, deeper than this darkness. The dream will show the path. Sleep until you find it. Until you find the way.
With a resinous tread, the night seeps through the treetops, unveiling its feline eye. Its dim light spreads across the earth and reveals a winding path — a jagged scar on the body of the slumbering world.
Slava Nesterov
I would sing you a song, quiet as the rustle of fallen leaves, so it would catch your sorrow and carry it to other lands. But where there is no "close," there is no "far" either.
I am alone. We are alone, like this moon. Between us — the night, black and absolute, like the pupil of a blind man.
So fall asleep. Plunge into a dream, deeper than this darkness. The dream will show the path. Sleep until you find it. Until you find the way.
With a resinous tread, the night seeps through the treetops, unveiling its feline eye. Its dim light spreads across the earth and reveals a winding path — a jagged scar on the body of the slumbering world.
Slava Nesterov
Syntax Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Slava Nesterov featuring a new body of work that combines drawing, wood carving, and metal engraving.
Slava Nesterov explores the points at which the semiocapitalist regime—built on the production of signs—reveals itself through the material environment. His works investigate the relationships between materiality, information flows, the economy, and technology, and can give rise to a specific type of archaeology that entails the construction of new myths. In the blending of cultural codes and images, the artist locates a reminiscence of the present day, in which mysticism, science, culture, economy, and technology are intertwined in complex networked structures. His practice is driven by the deconstruction of myths and an engagement with post-history, out of whose fragments a new “lifeworld” emerges.
To create his objects, Nesterov employs contemporary production technologies alongside traditional craft techniques. The insensibility of technical media and algorithms enters into dialogue with living materials and the manual labor to which the artist devotes great attention.
Slava Nesterov was born in 1989 in Perm. He lives and works in Moscow.
Slava Nesterov explores the points at which the semiocapitalist regime—built on the production of signs—reveals itself through the material environment. His works investigate the relationships between materiality, information flows, the economy, and technology, and can give rise to a specific type of archaeology that entails the construction of new myths. In the blending of cultural codes and images, the artist locates a reminiscence of the present day, in which mysticism, science, culture, economy, and technology are intertwined in complex networked structures. His practice is driven by the deconstruction of myths and an engagement with post-history, out of whose fragments a new “lifeworld” emerges.
To create his objects, Nesterov employs contemporary production technologies alongside traditional craft techniques. The insensibility of technical media and algorithms enters into dialogue with living materials and the manual labor to which the artist devotes great attention.
Slava Nesterov was born in 1989 in Perm. He lives and works in Moscow.
Slava Nesterov
Slava Nesterov uses such visual materials as installation, sculpture, graphics and digital art. His works cover relationship between materiality, economics and technology: how economics and technology shape the physical and non-physical reality. One of the main principles of his work is mythogenesis, mysticism and post-history interpretation, on the wreckage of which new forms of life are born.
