The logic of continuous updating, which has become a defining feature of contemporary reality, offers us tools for the permanent revision of the world around us — for rewriting, reformatting, and endlessly adjusting context. It also shapes a particular mode of self-perception: our inner and outer worlds are reduced to the status of a draft, a state in which stable categories and final forms become impossible. Everyday digital practices — image editing, text correction, the redefinition of social roles and personal identity — reinforce this regime of global editability, keeping us in a perpetual “beta version,” repeatedly saving ourselves anew over previous iterations. In these conditions, individual artistic practice becomes one of the key forms of creative reflection, offering a critical lens on reality and proposing new modes of rethinking it.
The graduate exhibition of students from the Art Practice and New Media in Contemporary Art programs is grounded in the idea of processuality and a fundamental openness to change — an openness that reflects the inherent instability of any construction, whether temporal, physical, or social. Through the prism of their artistic approaches — video, digital applications, installations, sculptural objects, and painting — the artists address the question of authenticity in an era when any mode of presence can be revised in an instant. They reflect on the instability of fixed meanings, leaving open the question of what remains unchanged in a world where everything is subject to editing.

Artists:
Lena Langer, Olesya Rybak, Ekaterina Bykova, Elena Pavlova, Verenika Perla, Yulia Tsygankova, Katya Trukhan, Lizaveta Goskova, Olesya Vorobyova, Lena Koko, Ksenia Lushnikova, Olga Strelkina, Maria Trishkina, Elena Balybina, Svetlana Saprykina, Kira Pash, Andrey Kovyazin, Maya Terekhova, Svetlana Gonchar, Alexey Samarin, Ilya Myagkov, Marina Varlamova, Anna Khodykina, Maria Anosova, Vasily Stroyny, Anna Kokotova.