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About the artist

Igor Minaev

Director, screenwriter, actor and painter, Igor Minaev was born in the USSR. After studying at the National Institute of Theatre and Cinema in Kyiv, he began his career as a director in Odesa during Perestroika, whose spirit he captured in two feature films: Cold Mars (1988) and Ground Floor (1990). Both were selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

“At first, they were drawings. Then came attempts at collage. Eventually, the two processes came together in drawing-collage. Shapes and colours—the most heterogeneous objects—mixed to form a new unity, joined by a hyphen.”