The series “Today” was created during the pandemic, a period when daily life was confined to domestic interiors and the outside world was accessible primarily through the flow of news images. Working with photographs circulating in the media at that time, Maxim Tatarintsev translates them into an authorial graphic technique in which pigment appears to drift, dissolve or run downward.
This visual effect transforms documentary scenes—medical workers, patients, moments of collective tension—into images that hover between presence and disappearance. The works capture not the events themselves, but their mediated perception: fragmented, emotionally saturated, and deprived of stable reference points.
“Today” reflects a shared experience of uncertainty, in which each new day carried a sense of instability and rising anxiety, and visual information became the primary means of “touching” reality. The series reveals how global events are refracted through the fragile material of paper and the fluid structure of the image, becoming a trace—a metaphorical imprint of time that cannot be held, yet must be remembered.