“I want to create some kind of space where people can encounter reality anew through their senses. I want to build places in which people can see something new for themselves or think about different things that probably never occurred to them, but are real all the same. There’s so much fake reality outside, so anything that brings you back to reality is very important. Earlier, artists were dealingwith fantasy worlds and bringing their spectators to something else, to different realities, expanding their worlds. Now, it looks like we need the opposite. . . .You need to come back from this expanded reality to the reality that is right here, like the surface of this table. . . . It’s needed in our world. We need to come back to the ground. We need to come back to our senses.”

 – Irina Nakhova