Kitayev's oeuvre has long since attained a place of prominence in St. Petersburg's photographic art. His works are immediately recognizable so keen is his perception of the city, his ability to see it anew with a fresh, somewhat bewildered gaze, as if in a jamais vu. The somewhat estranged, chilly tenderness in Kitayev's vision of the city finds its expression in compositions of masterful plasticity where familiar cityscapes are deliberately immersed in a nearly "non-figurative plastic substance."

Kitayev's fortunate gift of craftily welding recognizable reality with abstract plastic experiments also drove his success in the most physical realm of photographic art - the artifact. The daintiest virtual phantoms are born when a real object is married to a system of abstract shapes that, through an array of rather intricate techniques, are transformed into a semblance of plastic variation, a visual echo of reality.

As a result of this impeccably tasteful visual game, the print develops phantasmagoric forms irradiating subtle, detached eroticism and arcane allusions that stir up torrents of tremulous associations deep down in the subconscious.

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