Born in 1983, Tim Parchikov, who works and lives in Moscow, is as much a photographer as a filmmaker who seizes the world with a curious eye on his many travels across the globe. By combining free photo reportage with cinematic storytelling and a dose of suspense, he casts a special glance at our changing world and underlines its disturbing beauty.

Committed to transfer questions, Tim Parchikov discerns the moments of political and cultural changes and captures as many solitary figures as urban or rural landscapes, vibrant colors between bright light and deep shadow. Each of the series is made up as a narrative, spotting existing figures or invented characters, semi-intangible aspects and bleak spaces. All these images seem paradoxically interchangeable, and it is up to any spectator to resort to his or her memories or dreams to compose or recompose the world that impacts our lives.

Features of Intuition, whose title is a tribute to the poet father of the artist, is an apprehension of the world that during the time of a brief exposure is no longer what it was, and probably will not be so in the near future. Making the economy of deductive reasoning, intuition, according to philosophy, brings to mind instantly the object of knowledge, grasping it immediately, and lends its memory certainty.

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Moscow City Government
Moscow City Department of Culture
Russian Academy of Arts
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Tim Parchikov. Features of Intuition

Exhibition:
Curator: Ami Barak
Coordinator: Tatyana Sirotina
Registrar: Sergey Smirnov
Assistant curator: Marie Gautier

Moscow Museum of Modern Art:
Director: Zurab Tsereteli
Executive Director: Vasili Tsereteli
First Deputy Director: Manana Popova
© Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2015.
© Texts: Ami Barak, 2015.
© Images: Tim Parchikov, 2015.