A64 PORTFOLIO

A64 Portfolio is an exhibition-review that brings together the works of two artists who are also members of the same family. The project’s title derives from several personal meanings: “A” stands for “Apartment,” signifying a shared living space, while “64” is the area code for the Saratov Region, where Ivan and Kristina are from. Thus, A64 became a collective image of home, incorporating the work of each participant.

For the artists, photography has become a form of internal dialogue and a way of living together, creating a new visual and emotional experience. Working in different genres, they constantly influence one another—through their shared life and the presence of creativity within their home. Their son Zakhar has become a constant and very important participant in this process.

Gradually, their passion for photography turned them not only into a family but also into an artistic collective. Without a manifesto, without the deliberate formation of a group or a shared school of thought, it happened rather naturally, through time spent working together and a continuous visual dialogue.

The project was born out of a desire to extend the life of works created within commercial photography, to take them beyond their applied context, and to look at them anew as independent images. Within the exhibition, fashion, food, and conceptual photography are freed from their usual functions and come together into a single picture, united by one family and one environment.