To Your Side

Dima Filippov

July 18 — August 17, 2025
Gallery "Triumph"

The project will bring together video works, a series of drawings, and photographic objects. They continue the form developed by Filippov over recent years, in which a fragment of the landscape becomes a container that preserves a subjective view of space.

The Triumph Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Dima Filippov titled To Your Side. The project brings together video works, a series of drawings, and photographic objects. These continue a form the artist has developed over recent years, in which a fragment of the landscape becomes a container that preserves a subjective perception of space. Filippov’s exhibition To Your Side marks a new stage in the artist’s reflections on viewing space as a universal idea within art. The act of seeing binds the elements of the project together, while optical techniques—zooming in and out, sharpness and defocus—become its central visual code. Using minimal expressive means, Filippov explores the plasticity of the image and the processes of its formation, both in analog and digital environments.

Still from the video To Your Side
2025
Two-channel video, sound

The Triumph Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Dima Filippov titled To Your Side. The project brings together video works, a series of drawings, and photographic objects. These continue a form the artist has developed over recent years, in which a fragment of the landscape becomes a container that preserves a subjective perception of space. Filippov’s exhibition To Your Side marks a new stage in the artist’s reflections on viewing space as a universal idea within art. The act of seeing binds the elements of the project together, while optical techniques—zooming in and out, sharpness and defocus—become its central visual code. Using minimal expressive means, Filippov explores the plasticity of the image and the processes of its formation, both in analog and digital environments.

The central element of the project is a meditative video installation, in which the artist’s gaze moves in search of a "basic landscape"—from his native Altai region to the settlement of Elton, and further west to the state of Texas. The viewer is invited to join this gaze, observing unstable close-ups and distant views of a landscape filled with light and earth. From the artist’s homeland—anchored by the recurring image of his father, often appearing as a blurred silhouette—the optics shift toward the settlement near the Kazakhstan border by Lake Elton, a testing ground for his artistic practice, and then extend toward the surroundings of the Chinati Foundation, where for nearly forty years Donald Judd realized his model of art in the city of Marfa.

Still from the video To Your Side
2025
Two-channel video, sound

The central element of the project is a meditative video installation, in which the artist’s gaze moves in search of a "basic landscape"—from his native Altai region to the settlement of Elton, and further west to the state of Texas. The viewer is invited to join this gaze, observing unstable close-ups and distant views of a landscape filled with light and earth. From the artist’s homeland—anchored by the recurring image of his father, often appearing as a blurred silhouette—the optics shift toward the settlement near the Kazakhstan border by Lake Elton, a testing ground for his artistic practice, and then extend toward the surroundings of the Chinati Foundation, where for nearly forty years Donald Judd realized his model of art in the city of Marfa.

For many years, the artist has worked with the notion of the "basic landscape," which he identifies and records across different geographical locations. The idea of a "basic," or intimate, landscape is rooted in the familiar terrains of the Altai region. The search for similar—yet foreign—landscapes takes the artist to other regions, transforming this field practice into the central narrative of the project.

Still from the video To Your Side
2025
Two-channel video, sound

For many years, the artist has worked with the notion of the "basic landscape," which he identifies and records across different geographical locations. The idea of a "basic," or intimate, landscape is rooted in the familiar terrains of the Altai region. The search for similar—yet foreign—landscapes takes the artist to other regions, transforming this field practice into the central narrative of the project.

Filippov’s attempt to hold both his own attention and that of others, to locate himself within the movement from "your side" to another, and to align with the broader trajectory of "big" art, is embodied in images of a slightly trembling mirage—one that appears and disappears depending on the artist’s degree of focus. Through this gaze, he invites the viewer to pause—even briefly—and experience the quiet allure of slow yet inevitable movement within the space of art.

Curator: Kristina Romanova

From the series To Your Side
2025
Paper, pastel, solid wood (larch)
20 × 14 × 4 cm

Filippov’s attempt to hold both his own attention and that of others, to locate himself within the movement from "your side" to another, and to align with the broader trajectory of "big" art, is embodied in images of a slightly trembling mirage—one that appears and disappears depending on the artist’s degree of focus. Through this gaze, he invites the viewer to pause—even briefly—and experience the quiet allure of slow yet inevitable movement within the space of art.

Curator: Kristina Romanova