White Spots examines the practices of emerging artists working with technology through the lens of absence—of latent meanings that have yet to be articulated, investigated, or claimed within the field of contemporary art. Today's art world increasingly demands originality and the avoidance of repetition, urging artists to "find" or "occupy" their own position. Yet such a position does not pre-exist; it emerges as a gap, a blank space that must first be discovered. In this context, the practices of young artists are often driven by a commitment to innovation through the exploration of subjects and technologies that remain underexamined or undefined.
The graduation exhibition of the Art TECH Master's Programme at MISIS University proposes an alternative perspective on the notion of artistic completion. Rather than presenting graduation projects as fully resolved works, the exhibition approaches them as a fragile moment of institutional and conceptual stabilization—a moment in which the artist renders visible a previously imperceptible territory.
The exhibition's title draws on both cartographic and perceptual metaphors. A white spot denotes an unexplored territory, an empty space, and a zone of fundamental invisibility. The works presented inhabit this shifting field of meanings, where the desire to fill a void inevitably encounters its almost algorithmic reproduction. The exhibition's central question—What gap does each work reveal?—shifts attention away from formal novelty toward the processes of inquiry and discovery. In this sense, the projects function as markers pointing toward yet-unformed territories of knowledge and experience.
White Spots ultimately invites audiences to imagine the future of art as a map of absences, and artistic practice as a means of revealing them.
Artists: Evgeny Aksenov, Artem Ankudinov, Stasya Batskikh, Anna Dovgalyuk, Ivan Dovgalyuk, Yulia Egoshina, Nikita Istyushkin, Viktor Kertanov, Leir (Valeriya Kuzmina), Yulia Maslova, Roman Melnik, Anastasia Pyryeva, Alexey Sergeev, Darya Setevinets, Alexander Sizenov, Masha Skvo, Diana Shaipova, and Yan Yakov.