Picture this: an Aperol spritz on a summer evening – or maybe a negroni, or just some lemonade. In a garden. The first breeze you’ve felt all day. Anastasia Kolesnichenko’s Evening Smell conjures up this moment, firey colors setting and purple dusk stretching above them in the form of a yawning delphinium. Like the sunset, or a long evening, the image is slightly blurry, but smells have a power to trigger memories with unique clarity. In this case, Kolesnichenko allows clarity and blur to exist not as opposites, but as doors opening to one another.

Wait – it’s autumn now. The air is crisp and smells no longer waft through the air but aim with purpose, sharp like the forms in Kolesnichenko’s Autumn Smell, where the colors of the garden have changed but the vividness with which she transports us there has not.

The seasons are the oldest shared point of reference there is, and the most reliable conversation topic, next to food. But the climate is changing, and its reliability is almost lost. For solace, we have a misshapen tomato stretching towards an alien planet, armed with flowers and bread, a pearl in tow. Kolesnichenko brings us to Another World, and asks us, how will this one smell?

- The Editors

Anastasia Kolesnichenko is an artist from Moscow, Russia. She holds a degree in design from NPU Higher School of Economics and currently lives and works in Moscow as a freelance artist and graphic designer. Her photographs have appeared in Vogue Russia and Grazia and in museums and galleries in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Milan, and Bologna, as well as in several online exhibitions.