Pavel Pepperstein (Moscow, Russia in 1966), renowned artist, writer and art theorist, presents his latest works under the suggestive title Murder, She Said paraphrasing Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. The 25 works exposed tell a detective story in which the character The black square, sprung from the imagination of Pavel, enters the body of a lucky murderer and absorbs some of the characteristics of their victims.
Pavel Pepperstein was a founding member, along with Yuri Leiderman and Sergei Anufriev, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics a group that stood out for its critical stance against the growing influence of Western culture and art in Russia. With the help of a complex language of scripting and image, based on the appropriation of cultural events, these young conceptual artists created a new subculture closed in itself completely independent of Western trends. Today the work of Pepperstein continues to unite the world of literature with the most important artistic medium for him, which is drawing.
