Etot Timur
Timur This is the pseudonym of the artist Timur Nurgaliev.
He was born in Nevelsk, on. Sakhalin.
Since 2007 he lives and works in St. Petersburg.
In his works, the artist explores the influence of language on every aspect of what is happening, using the human body as a clue and horror as a vibe. This research has turned in recent years into a full-fledged phantasmagoria about a man and a woman at the same time, influenced by all contemporary events, cultural symbols and probably something deeply personal.
“Women are the protagonists of almost all of my work, and I hope this can be explained by something more original than the usual story of another estranged father.
I have been working with tattooing for the last 13 years. The experience of working with other people's bodies has infiltrated my work unnoticed by myself. Touching, crumpling, pulling, twisting. To smell, to wipe, to shave. To bring pain.
Accepted as a vessel, at times the body feels like a trapped horror movie character. The body, possessed by the consciousness of its owner, is unable to bring about the evolution of its own being through will. It looks tragically in the mirror and tries to remember when everything went wrong. To remember who it really is. A poor, majestic creature. A naked spirit hiding in plain sight.
A body an obsession. A friend who is always with you. An entity more dear than a mother, because one day it is from her that we will be born definitively.”
Timur Etot, artist
