The PiranesiLAB Gallery presents a small exhibition in the Print Art Room at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art dedicated to Igor Makarevich's "Changes"—a series of five photogravures (1978, 2019). The motif of external and internal transformation unites the sequence of images, in which the image of the young artist is replaced by a portrait of the author years later.

In 1978, Igor Makarevich, an artist of the Moscow Conceptualist circle, captured in a series of sixteen frames the gradual disappearance of a face under layers of plaster, black paint, and bandages. This artistic gesture alludes to the ritual of creating a funeral mask or shroud, but instead of an impersonal image, the artist's face becomes the material. "Changes" becomes a performative act and is integrated into one of the key tenets of Makarevich's practice—the use of his own body, face, and image as artistic material for constructing fictional biographies and mythologies.

The series presented in the study was created in 2019 at PiranesiLAB using photogravure. The temporal metamorphosis, unfolding within a unique "portal box," begins with images from 1978 and continues with photographs created forty years later—upon the artist's return to this theme in collaboration with the print studio. This distance opens a space for reflection not only on the finitude of existence and dematerialization, but also on the reaffirmation of life in the fullness of accumulated experience.

The exhibition in the study focuses on one of PiranesiLAB's key formats—a concentrated narrative about a single work from a collection formed in collaboration between artists and printmakers.

In the open display—in cabinets containing printed graphics—this narrative expands through an exploration of the artist's experience with the medium: on display are sheets from Makarevich's other significant series, Homo Lignum, as well as early etchings for the novel Vanity Fair.