Timur Aloev - “Leaving the Eden”

Timur Aloev was born 1990 in Blagoveschensk, Far East Russia. In 2010 he moved to Czech Republic for his studies and is currently based in Prague.
In his artistic practice, Timur predominantly works with mediums of painting, drawing and ceramics. The main characters of Aloev's paintings are cartoony animals, fictional creatures who become – under the blue sky in a brightly blooming landscape - witnesses or actors in events that find their antecedents in religious mythology, heroic legends, and stories inspired by Eastern European illustrated fairy tales, American Disney films, and Japanese anime. They repeatedly indulge in the ancient folk dance "khorovod'', which occupies a prominent place in Timur Aloev's work. It is a collective dance in a circle symbolically reflecting the shape and movement of the sun and natural elements. A ritual of unification, integrity of the family, unity with nature and erasing personal boundaries.

In the “leaving the Eden” I explore the story of the Garden of Eden. After the banishment of Eve and Adam, we only know their story, the story of their descendants, and the story of our human, mortal world. But what happened to Eden? What did Eve and Adam leave behind there? I speculate, and from that speculation, a new myth has emerged - one of my own.