Bakhrom Alimov

Suicide algebra

Suicide algebra

Oil on canvas

60 × 60 cm (24 × 24 in)

2024

About Bakhrom

Bakhrom Alimov (b. 1994) works and lives in Tbilisi. Originally from Moscow, he grew up in in an Uzbek family during a time of great economic and cultural upheaval in Russia.

He had a troubled childhood, describing his home as a place he preferred not to be, spending most of his time outside with other troubled kids.

This free childhood led to Bakhrom’s introduction to graffiti and street art, his creative origins. He was writing graffiti both in Russia and abroad, once even landing himself in a Prague jail cell.

When he returned to Moscow, he encountered an emerging electronic music scene and became completely immersed, organizing events and continuing his street art career.

Bakhrom posits that his generation, the kids running around on Moscow streets in the early aughts, grew up with a Soviet-era value system in an ever-changing capitalist Russia. Many in this generation felt abandoned by their parents and the state, leaving them with no choice but to carve their own path.

Bakhrom later focused his practice on painting. His latest series are about self, paradoxical desires, irony, chronic skepticism and spontaneity.

About Dissolution

Founded in 2022 by David Finestein, Dissolution is space for both Georgian and foreign artists to show innovative work. After organizing exhibitions in New York, David has decided to bring the same feel to an underground space in Tbilisi.

Dissolution has now moved online, delivering work by living artists to inboxes around the world every Friday.

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