Maiofis Gregori

On the threshold of the New Age, where digital is replacing analog, the famous St. Petersburg lover of paradoxes turns to the past break in art - Victorian staged photography - in order to reflect the turbulent flow of time through the confusion of times and genres.

His pieces are metaphoric and allegorical, as in the Proverbs series. In this series, as in Aesop’s fables, elephants, monkeys, and bears inhabit our social world, where they play the piano, dance, and pose with a ballerina.

We may say that Maiofis embodies Aesop’s language of proverbs not only in the plot, but in the technique itself. The artist speaks in the language of photography, but he tells his story differently, in a roundabout way, using not only the figures of animals but painting effects themselves as allegory.