Igor Dryomin:
Performance "Sweet and sharp gravity"

Valera and Natasha Cherkashin are artists, living symbols of Russian contemporary art, who have been working together for about 35 years. Starting with traditional materials - paintings, graphics and photographs, they gradually switched to work with photo images, installations, performances, and since 1999 - digital images and video. For a long time they lived in New York. They currently live and work in Moscow. But, in fact, they are citizens of the world.

Cherkashins made more than 150 personal exhibitions and 250 actions - performances. More than seventy TV programs were filmed about them, including CNN, Italian Super Channel, Deutsche Welle, Russian TV. And also, more than two hundred publications in the media were made, including Spark, Washington Post, Art + Auction, Art Forum, Stern Magazine, etc. Their works are in more than 20 major museum and corporate collections: The Art Institute of Chicago ; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; The Museum of Art Philadelphia; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco MOMA; State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin (Moscow) and many others.