Kirill Makarov incorporated video games into his artistic practice a long time ago. During his participation in the Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, he explored virtual reality. The new round of his research into the relationship between painting and visual technologies came immediately after the VR project. His research impacted the painting imagery, and the composition of his works has changed – it no longer contains a single plane familiar to the viewer. Makarov's canvases may capture several viewing angles at once. Oddly enough, this is a more reliable way to capture contemporary visual reality, in which more and more screens and interactive surfaces pop up into existence.

Viewing modes and angles become the subject of the experiment by Evgeny Dedov. But he raises the issue of imagery in a different way: he does not inquire what and how we see in the new technological reality, instead he narrows down the visible space by establishing limits and restricting the audience in what they see on the canvas, and thereby expands the autonomy of the viewer, who is invited to complete the image as they see fit.