Over the course of his research residency, Lev Shusharichev aims to study the strategies used by artists and art workers, who have to navigate between personal expression and market demands, independence and institutions, state presence and societal opinion. He is interested in the way sociopolitical factors influence aesthetic choices. The goal of this stage of his research will be to map the main centres between which contemporary art players balance themselves today.

Lev Shusharichev’s approach combines sociological and artistic methods. His research material will be collected through individual interviews and surveys. Bétonsalon accompanies him in the selection of his interviewees and for the restitution of his research, which will take the form of an article and a performative performance, presenting a typology of creative compromises.