Evgeny Antufiev's Labyrinthine Ritual at Collezione Maramotti

At Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Evgeny Antufiev's exhibition (17 February – 31 July 2013) transforms visitors into detectives piecing together a psychological portrait. The show features a labyrinthine layout with white lines guiding a shamanic procession toward the center. Antufiev assembles heterogeneous materials—fabrics, crystals, meteorites, bones, hair, teeth, glue, insects, marble, wood—into a self-referential symbolic system. Visitors enter in small groups wearing shoe covers to preserve the immaculate white space. The fragmented physical and mental landscape creates a rhizomatic network of correspondences. Antufiev blends contemporary surrealism with Siberian anthropological traditions, constructing a personal mythology by stripping objects of their singular status and incorporating them into a troubling cabinet of curiosities. The exhibition was reviewed by Myriam Ben Salah for artpress.