Igor Tishin is one of the most important representatives of subversive Belarusian painting, His work is defined by a martyrology that hasits origins in the successive tragedies that have filled his country's memory. Using metaphors, the artistexplores the collective consciousness where the spirit of Chagall and folklore continueto colour life, while dark Soviet dogmas continue to weigh heavily. Igor now lives in Belgium and shows a growing interest in socio-philosophical and universal issues. His approach as a painter remains shifted, constantly balancing between reality and the imaginary, between identity and otherness. Igor Tishin likes to recklessly break his own stylistic forms. His disruptive brushstrokes result in an insolent, absurd work driven by derision, where the trick is to be able to read between the lines.