This project involves artists of different generations, but the preponderance is on the side of the young. As a curator, I am incredibly excited about the potential of the young generation of Russian artists. The authors of this exhibition project are united by a common language, not only in the plastic but also in the conceptual language, the language that creates situations and a common methodology. Most of the works in the exhibition are connected in one way or another with the deception of the viewer's expectations. They do not show us something, they thematise the very system of perception of the work, the system of its functioning.

The necessity to make this exhibition comes from the desire to demonstrate a tendency. These artworks somehow organize the latent possibilities of our time. They create a situation of initial non-recognition, an impossibility to process this art instantly, to digest it, to assimilate it automatically. They force us to interact with them intellectually, to make sense of our positions in relation to them and their functions. The authors put us in an uncomfortable situation, in which it's not clear at first what we should do. It is not usual to have this form of interaction with other things. New forms of interaction are designed to build alternative scenarios for the future. It is an attempt to elaborate new cultural codes, to activate the viewer's position, an attempt to ask questions through the work: how should art function today, why is that expected of it?

A plastic work may not have a figurative beginning, it is already part of the aesthetic canon. But today there cannot yet be an abstract exhibition that is structured like a musical composition. The answer to this statement could be the phrase: "Nothing of the kind!