"Rainy Season" is a textile installation consisting of long (about 10 meters each) knitted panels resembling waterfalls, rivers or roads. They are arranged both as a group and individually. The main storylines of this work are knitting, as an endless activity, or an excuse not to leave the house, not to leave a safe space. Time that turns into matter. Long and monotonous women's work. Knitting as an endless and non-functional, contemplative practice. Knitting needles tinkle softly, thoughts flow slowly, weaving into the fabric of the work. Knitting fills the space and, at the same time, creates it.

Knitting is traditionally associated with home comfort and warmth, quiet family evenings. The image of a woman knitting a cap for her baby or a grandmother knitting an endless stocking rises before my eyes.… In this case, I choose knitting as my main job and an alternative to all other activities.

I started knitting when my family and I moved to Indonesia. It was at the height of the rainy season (hence the name of the work). In this region, rain is a continuous stream of water that deafens and completely makes it impossible to leave the room. It can go on for several days in a row. Of course, I didn't want to leave the house not only because of the rain (or heat) - I felt like a stranger in a new country, I didn't know where to go, where to get the necessary things, how to solve current problems. I felt defenseless and confused. And I found a safe haven in an activity that calmed and created a sense of security. I still continue to work on this series of objects when I feel tired or exhausted. I have six panels ready now. Over time, this installation grows over time and fills an ever-larger space.

2024

This work is an embroidery on a 336x155cm canvas, made by hand, completely covered with small stitches. Each stitch here means a different person. This is a reflection on man as a unit of humanity. About the possibility of being alone among the "same ones". To be among people. To be a separate unit, by itself, and, at the same time, to be part of a multitude. In this work, I also reflect on the possibility of an individual influencing the whole society, historical events (for example, how would the entire embroidery system change if one of the stitches moved out, was out of place, or disappeared altogether?). I am just planning to create several embroideries with similar "plots", but at the moment only one is ready.

2023

Pair project (Evgenia Tut, Inna Grishechkina) \ Cotton, embroidery, painting \ 70x50cm"

A flicker. Point. Signals" is an epistolary project by two artists — Evgenia Tut and Inna Grishechkina. Their dialogues are "recorded" on five chintz canvases in ascetic black and white. But this simplicity defies literal deciphering. When two ways of expressing oneself collide, a score of signs appears that resemble large raindrops, water ripples, or rocks on the shore – a special text with its own meaning. It can be understood as a gesture of interaction and the desire to understand each other, the formation of speech and the origin of language, the mechanism of human communication as such.

2022