MOCKUTECTURE

“These artworks are architectural illusions – anamorphoses inspired by Soviet architectural modernism. Imaginary architectural elements drawn on blank walls. These drawings do not appear as themselves, standing out against the backdrop of the wall, but rather disguise themselves as the wall itself, dissolving into and concealing themselves within their urban context," SPEKTR team member Andrey Kolokolov explains.

The project consists of two parts. The first is called Utopia. It includes a phase of creating architectural illusions in different parts of the world that appear utopian and futuristic. When we look at these artworks’ symbolic meaning, the series comes together as a certain reflection on the civilization that created them.

The second phase is called Dystopia; in this phase, the artworks begin to live for themselves, mimicking their urban environment and aging. They themselves become surfaces used for expression by others, in the form of graffiti, tags, buffs of these tags and graffiti, stick-on posters, and bad local authority paint-jobs. All of this life will likewise be transferred anamorphically from the necessary perspectives onto these virtual spaces.

"Our street art is different in that most people do not notice it is there. Whenever that happens, it means that we have done a good job. When we first published photos of our work people were commenting on them and asking, 'Where’s the graffiti? All I can see is the wall.' I was personally told that one person had a false memory of spending their childhood travelling into the countryside past the Group of Grey Banners. This type of phantom memory is the truest success we can achieve," says Andrey Kolokolov (SPEKTR).