This series of acrylic works on plexiglass addresses homelessness as an inherent element of urban reality—one that is simultaneously omnipresent and systematically pushed out of sight. Maxim Tatarintsev photographs unhoused individuals in different countries and cities, later transforming these documentary images into vivid, high-contrast silhouettes rendered on a glossy surface.
The visual strategy is deliberately contradictory: an aesthetic associated with commercial appeal and marketable imagery is juxtaposed with scenes of acute social vulnerability. Through the use of saturated color and the reflective quality of plexiglass, the figures are “brought to light,” becoming central visual subjects that resist being overlooked. The artist highlights the paradox of contemporary urban experience: society is accustomed to avoiding direct contact with human fragility, yet this very fragility silently shapes the structure of the city.
In this series, the boundary between documentation and artistic intervention becomes fluid. Tatarintsev asks the viewer to confront those whom the cultural gaze habitually obscures, amplifying the invisible and translating a marginalized presence into a space of focused and engaged observation.