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Artistic Mediation as a Form of Art

Born in a family of a mother doctor and a father church-builder from the Urals, artist Sergey Rozhin recounts to have made a conscious decision to spend his life with art as early as the age of thirteen. The experience is troubling for him to this day: abused by group of his peers at a summer camp, he recounts to have began drawing unceasingly to get over the pain when recovering in bed. This biographical story is only relevant when tracing back Rozhin’s almost religious belief in the power and healing properties of naivety and mediation. That’s right: the …