Bio

Maxim Zhestkov is an artist and director who has been using digital technology to create new worlds, combining art, interaction and spatial experiences for the last 20 years. Coming from a background in art, architecture and design, he creates immersive animations, VR,and real-time projects that combine digital presence, gamification, movement, sound and spaces.

Merging architecture, sculpture, color, movement, and sound, Zhestkov combines various channels of perception to develop a distinct universal language to depict complicated concepts and ideas in a succinct yet not scaled down manner.

His artistic work has been exhibited at solo and group shows in Unit London, Kunsthalle Zurich, Nassima Landau and Shanghai Modern Art Museum, as well as in institutions like Oxford, the Hermitage Museum, Christie's, MIT and Art Basel Miami.

Synopsis

Connecting particles into mighty flows, Waves is an examination of shifts of energy in complicated systems that lead to the inevitable transformation of those systems. 

A wave - a disturbance of the established order - encompasses dynamics as an inherent part of our world.  Waves bring change, oscillations, and fluctuations, which spread across objects and connect them to entangled networks of all interrelated and continuous events. Inseparable from distortions, they are themselves messages that indicate transformations and shifts.

Waves are primary signals permeating the world and a universal language of nature that underlies both our biological and technological systems. By covering the world with webs of electromagnetic signals, we have expanded our neural systems and can now connect with others able to decipher the coded messages. Interfering and merging, waves change their nature and - when synchronised - grow and transform into a greater entity with the potential to generate a transformative flux.