Being Everywhere and Nowhere” presents recent works by the Canadian interdisciplinary artist Daniil Alikov (b. 1980).

Having worked in the visual effects industry for more than fifteen years and contributed to numerous blockbuster films, Alikov’s turn toward fine art emerges from an ongoing—if unresolved—attempt to distance himself from the algorithmically driven visual culture of digital production, which he characterizes as increasingly homogenized, polished, and formulaic. Yet this departure remains inherently paradoxical. In his artistic practice, Alikov continues to employ neural networks and computational tools to generate intricate visual detail, while drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of digital art and electronic music. This ambivalent position underscores the deeply entangled and mutually constitutive relationship between contemporary art and technology.

Alikov’s practice operates as a sustained exploration of colour, form, and materiality, dissolving the boundaries between physical space and the immersive, illusory environments of the digital realm—an environment from which the artist simultaneously seeks escape and toward which he remains persistently drawn. Central to his approach is a deliberate resistance to fixed interpretation. By withholding definitive meaning, Alikov seeks to grant viewers what he describes as an “ultimate freedom of comprehension,” encouraging open-ended and subjective engagement with the work.

Being Everywhere and Nowhere” features recent sculptures and paintings alongside a site-specific installation. The exhibition also incorporates a curated selection of electronic music, inviting audiences to consider the synesthetic and affective relationship between sound and visual form within Alikov’s practice—what the artist describes as the process of “turning rhythm into shapes.