ALMYS
NATASHA PEROVA
Metal frame, glass, metal printing (2024)
''Almys are a form of partial shapeshifting''

The painting with the image in the sculpture
is generated by neural networks based on the legend Altai Territory about a Kalmyk girl, a virgin
demoness.

The legend goes like this - a certain hunter
lived with such a Girl, hunting was not successful at that time, nevertheless he returned HOME, and there was always delicious food on the table. He decided
to watch his wife do it.

It turned out that she cut off pieces of meat from herself, then cut out her intestines, and cooked it all. She scraped the calloused skin off her feet and
threw it into the vat. The intestines and meat turned into mutton, and the skin into tea leaves.

The motive of the collision, the struggle with diamonds It is quite common. There are Almys hunters, they hunt them down like snowmen.