Sam Kaprielov

#SamKaprielov

Born in 1971, USSR.

Lives and works in London, UK.

Kaprielov’s fabulous juxtapositions are a conglomeration of real and fictional worlds. He says that his Felliniesque misfits; monochrome porters, brim-hatted shrews, demobbed stage-door Johnnies and agonized children are inspired by “napkins, portholes, turtles, bunkers, desert … anything” while also claiming that his work refers to “nothing outside of itself”.

Each piece is, however, part of a series, discarded frames of the same noirish short, and it is in this way – directly through his fictive phantasy – that Kaprielov investigates the smoky, intransient world around him.