What is common between your body, Crimea and Malevich’s Black Square? Both that, and the third, modern intellectual journalism from time to time calls the “social construct”. This concept, emerging from the academic environment, has recently become more and more popular and even fashionable. The philosopher Samson Lieberman tells what it is, why are social constructs needed, how they affect our daily lives and why the designed “on paper” is real.

In a series of “Autoporters”, graphic artist Alexei Sukhov tries to capture his appearance. Self -portraits are often found in the history of classical art. So artists represent themselves to the public, formulate who they are. The works of Alexei Sukhov show how difficult it is to fit in the inner world in one image: his figures are blurred, break down, and space is abstractly and unstable.