Ilya Orlov is a Finnish artist and art theorist of Russian descent living in Finland since 2015.

 

Orlov’s artistic credo originates from Psychedelic Conceptualism, Everythingism, Neo-Nihilism, Cubo-Futurism, Vorticism, metafiction, post-novel, Analytic Conceptual art, Romanticist Conceptualism, as well as Baroque stereoscopy, Accadian cinema, Neanderthal jewellery, Leningrad Futurist television, and Finnish Dada.

Or, in Contemporary Art Administrative Language, “Orlov explores human/non-human relationships by deconstructing metaphysical binaries and the post-anthropocentric perspective. Navigating the intricate entanglements and paradoxes of technological advancement, his work invites a critical reflection on the sustainability of innovation, situating itself at the intersection of object-oriented ontology and new materialism: challenging hegemonic narratives and normative structures of linear temporality, it envisions speculative futures and proposes a more fractal understanding of existence.”