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VANITAS
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“Vanitas, (from Latin vanitas, “vanity”), in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent.
Although a few vanitas pictures include figures, the vast majority are pure still lifes, containing certain standard elements: symbols of arts and sciences (books, maps, and musical instruments), wealth and power (purses, jewelry, gold objects), and earthly pleasures (goblets, pipes, and playing cards); symbols of death or transience (skulls, clocks, burning candles, soap bubbles, and flowers); and, sometimes, symbols of resurrection and eternal life (usually ears of corn or sprigs of ivy or laurel).” – Encyclopedia Britannica
 Installation view |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 1/4 (FLOWERS)’, video (1 sec. loop), glass vase, artificial flowers, antifreeze, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 1/4 (FLOWERS)’, video (1 sec. loop), glass vase, artificial flowers, antifreeze, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 1/4 (FLOWERS)’, video (1 sec. loop), glass vase, artificial flowers, antifreeze, 2026 (Details) |
 Installation view |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 2/4 (CANDLE)’, video (1 sec. loop), candles, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 2/4 (CANDLE)’, video (1 sec. loop), candles, 2026 (Details) |
 Installation view |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 3/4 (TIME)’, video (1 sec. loop), sandglass, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 3/4 (TIME)’, video (1 sec. loop), sandglass, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 3/4 (TIME)’, video (1 sec. loop), sandglass, 2026 (Details) |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 4/4 (SKULL)’, video (1 sec. loop), seashell, mirror, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 4/4 (SKULL)’, video (1 sec. loop), seashell, mirror, 2026 |
 Pavel Polshchikov, ‘Vanitas 4/4 (SKULL)’, video (1 sec. loop), seashell, mirror, 2026 |