Alexey Starkov
Aspic (2026, epoxy resin, meat, vegetables, old photo)

"In the aspic series, I explore memory as something tangible - as a physical substance.
I take familiar images - symbols of home archive, family gatherings, and recreate it literally, but in epoxy resin. Suspended within the transparent layer are chopped vegetables, pieces of meat, and found photographs. They appear like fragments of the past that have accidentally come to rest beside one another, fused together into a single body."