In early September 2024, I was in Almaty's 12th City Hospital and scheduled for a week of physical therapy.
Sitting in the hallway waiting in line for treatments, I looked at the visual aids, pictures reprinted from old Soviet medical textbooks from the 1950s and 1960s. Some of them were quite funny. Some, if you abstract away
from the subject matter, looked like stills from a Hitchcock thriller!
A mixture of horror, ordinariness, and sexuality! All these pictures
echoed the serious text on how to properly undergo physical therapy. The idea of ​​delighting the doctors and
patients alike was born. I decided to add to these diagrams one element, the love of all women of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (they are the ones
who mostly sit in these hallways) – Alain Delon. After the drawings were done, artist Alina Arystalina and I snuck into the hospital incognito and pasted them over the old works.

Every two weeks, I visited the city hospital to check that my exhibit was still there. This went on for four months. The entire time, they hung unnoticed. Later, I decided to add three more pictures of the remaining procedures and invited my friends to participate. Everything went well; we were able to hang the remaining works and even take some photos. But when I returned a week later, I discovered that the works had been removed and that old ones, from medical textbooks, were hanging there.
I asked the nurse in the ward where the Alain Delon from the pictures had gone, but she didn't understand my question. I didn't pursue it further.