Audio visual works created in collaboration with human rights organizations, museums and scientists.

It is fascinating to collaborate with people who are advancing science and to imagine with them visual forms that make their discoveries perceptible.

Kirill Sheberstov is a CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), spin physics, and molecular quantum dynamics. He studies long-lived spin states and spin waves in organic molecules. His research shows, in particular, how spin excitation can propagate along a molecular chain, opening up new possibilities for NMR, the study of complex molecular systems, and quantum simulation.

Gogol’s Wives have found a way to visualize these scientific phenomena through the Slinky, a familiar object that becomes a meeting point between visible mechanical phenomena and invisible physical processes. In experiments designed by Kirill and given cinematic form by Gogol’s Wives, oscillations, resonance, standing waves, and the decomposition of motion into frequencies create an intuitive bridge to the principles of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

The event commemorates political prisoners and victims of Soviet repression. Every year, people gathered in Moscow’s Lubyanka Square to read aloud the names of those executed during Stalin’s Great Terror. After the event was banned in Moscow in 2021, it became international and is now held in cities around the world.

Idea and realization: Taisiya Krugovykh, Vasily Bogatov