YOmoYO (Maxim Svishёv)
Masks
About the Item
The emoji drop-down windows on the smartphone resemble traditional Japanese theatre masks. This is a small set of emotional reactions expressed by simple visual symbols, but how clearly they reflect our behaviour: living by set patterns, with limited behaviour modes and standardised thinking. The artist took the most common, frequently used emojis and combined them with his own feelings and experiences; this is how the author’s images turned out.
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About the Artist
Maxim Svishёv is an artist from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, whose creative activity is related with computer graphic and animation. The works are kind of gameplay with space that turns out to be a window into a new reality created by mix of video content, volume and sound. Maxim finds his own patterns and icons and uses creative technologies to implement his ideas. His artworks were presented in different exhibition projects all over the world: New York, Blois, Torino, Sao-Paulo, Berlin, Seoul, Venice, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kiev and Perm. He is the winner of Sergey Kuryokhin's prize, the nominated artist for 'Innovation' prize award and owns a special prize of the French Embassy — the 'Innovation' award.