© 2016 Leon Crayfish
Works
Art Works
"New neural connections"
oil/canvas 150/150cm 2025
"Bubbles Dreams"
Oil / canvas. 2025
"By myself"
3d plastic/acrilic/oil/canvas 40/40cm 2026
"Bubbles Dreams"
Oil / canvas. 2025
"Lost translate"
Oil / canvas. 2025
"Future"
Oil / canvas. 2025
"Adaptation"
oil/canvas 100-178cm 2026
"Very strange things"
Oil / canvas. 2025
"Through installations and sculptural objects, I explore the relationship between humans and contemporary technologies, artificial intelligence, and the shifting system of values. My focus is not on technology itself, but on its impact on people— how it influences our decisions, attention, memory, and our understanding of who we are."
BY MYSELF
This installation reflects on the development of artificial
intelligence and the changing relationship between humans
and machines.
As a father of two children, I often hear the phrase, “I can do
it myself!”- a child's first attempt to act independently while
learning from those around them.
Today, AI is increasingly used not only as a tool, but also as a
source of creative ideas. Rather than developing their own
concepts, some artists allow AI to shape the work itself.
This raises a question: are we approaching a moment when
artificial intelligence will move beyond being an assistant
and become an autonomous creator? One day, it may say to
humanity the very same words children say to their parents:
“I can do it myself!”
intelligence and the changing relationship between humans
and machines.
As a father of two children, I often hear the phrase, “I can do
it myself!”- a child's first attempt to act independently while
learning from those around them.
Today, AI is increasingly used not only as a tool, but also as a
source of creative ideas. Rather than developing their own
concepts, some artists allow AI to shape the work itself.
This raises a question: are we approaching a moment when
artificial intelligence will move beyond being an assistant
and become an autonomous creator? One day, it may say to
humanity the very same words children say to their parents:
“I can do it myself!”
EDUCATION
2007 BA in Textile Design, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (SPbSUITD), St.
Petersburg, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Solo Painting Presentation, Studio Karaköy, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
2021–2022 You and I, You and Me (International Science-Art research project and interactive installation).
Curated by Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström. Presented at contemporary art festivals and
exhibition venues across Europe:
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Futureless Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
BRAINTour, Embodiment, Berlin, Germany
Vorspiel ransmediale, Berlin, Germany
Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway
Matter to Matter, BIOrama project
2026 Spring Flare-up, IzzI Room Gallery, Saint-Peterburg
2026 Totems, Conceptual Sculpture and Sound Installation (In preparation / Current project)
2026 Drowning in Ideas, Multimedia Sculpture and Technological Installation (In preparation / Current project)
2026 Brave Wave, online group exhibition, Clover Gallery (participation confirmed)
2007 BA in Textile Design, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (SPbSUITD), St.
Petersburg, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Solo Painting Presentation, Studio Karaköy, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
2021–2022 You and I, You and Me (International Science-Art research project and interactive installation).
Curated by Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström. Presented at contemporary art festivals and
exhibition venues across Europe:
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Futureless Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
BRAINTour, Embodiment, Berlin, Germany
Vorspiel ransmediale, Berlin, Germany
Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway
Matter to Matter, BIOrama project
2026 Spring Flare-up, IzzI Room Gallery, Saint-Peterburg
2026 Totems, Conceptual Sculpture and Sound Installation (In preparation / Current project)
2026 Drowning in Ideas, Multimedia Sculpture and Technological Installation (In preparation / Current project)
2026 Brave Wave, online group exhibition, Clover Gallery (participation confirmed)
New neural connections
“New Neural Connections” is a reflection on the intertwining of new destinies and the absorption of new information during a difficult time of change and displacement, sometimes not by choice.
Global changes force people to move faster and think more, to leave for unfamiliar places, find ways to communicate with new people, and build a new life. Turbulent events and emotions, like a storm, push the brain to work at its limits and form new neural connections.
These connections are not only biological, but social as well.
Global changes force people to move faster and think more, to leave for unfamiliar places, find ways to communicate with new people, and build a new life. Turbulent events and emotions, like a storm, push the brain to work at its limits and form new neural connections.
These connections are not only biological, but social as well.
The Bubbles Dreams
The Lost Translate
98-175cm
oil canvas
2025
98-175cm
oil canvas
2025
"The Lost Translate"
A sketch of a migrant’s life in a new country. Local people with strong roots, accustomed to a way of life shaped over centuries, and migratory birds trying to stop and put down roots in a new place. They live side by side, but often understand even the simplest things differently. What seems natural to some has to be learned all over again by others.
This creates a constant sense of things left unsaid and misunderstood, a desire to become part of a new place while at the same time being afraid of losing something of your own. And it is unclear at what point a migratory bird stops being migratory and becomes local.
A sketch of a migrant’s life in a new country. Local people with strong roots, accustomed to a way of life shaped over centuries, and migratory birds trying to stop and put down roots in a new place. They live side by side, but often understand even the simplest things differently. What seems natural to some has to be learned all over again by others.
This creates a constant sense of things left unsaid and misunderstood, a desire to become part of a new place while at the same time being afraid of losing something of your own. And it is unclear at what point a migratory bird stops being migratory and becomes local.
Future
A reflection on the future and our growing detachment from reality. We try to understand what lies ahead in an age of uncertainty, when our familiar plans can no longer be predicted with confidence and reality is increasingly distorted by technology. We are forced to question the truth of what we see, hear, and learn, and to redefine the boundaries of what is real.
Exhibition "3 Years in Istanbul"
Karakoy Studio Istanbul 2025
Adaptation
"You and I, You and Me"
Curators: Mindaugas Gapševičius и Maria Safronova Wahlström. In collaboration with Leon Crayfish (shoe design). Collection of wearables, part of You and I, You and Me Shoes, as an artefact, refer to daily clothing, something humans wear to protect themselves from unexpected environmental obstacles, including other organisms that are not necessarily always friendly to humans as well as cold. The collection of shoes add a yet one function, an interface to explore the environment. Could excess human heat be used to experience umwelt?
The shoes use excess human heat, which is turned into electricity to generate sound. While being affected by the ambient temperature, light, and movement, the shoes produce different sounds. The collection of shoes suggests rethinking the human relationship with nature. Furthermore, the collection critiques the hype surrounding renewable energy, which often pollutes the environment no less than the energy obtained from burning gas or coal.
The shoes use excess human heat, which is turned into electricity to generate sound. While being affected by the ambient temperature, light, and movement, the shoes produce different sounds. The collection of shoes suggests rethinking the human relationship with nature. Furthermore, the collection critiques the hype surrounding renewable energy, which often pollutes the environment no less than the energy obtained from burning gas or coal.
