有边空间BOUNDED SPACE｜「浮流：无尽漫行」马克西姆·热斯科夫个展

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Foreword

Emergence, an irreducible wholeness, is not merely generation or appearance. Order itself is an emergent phenomenon, it is not designed but generated from instability. In this context, stability is no longer the norm, but merely a temporary form within flux.

Flow: Infinite Walk exists precisely in this state of continuous emergence. Particles are not merely the basic units that constitute the world; they are the visible expressions of rules, forces, and relationships. They aggregate, split, shift, and reorganize under ever-changing conditions, keeping structures in a critical state of incompleteness. Any form that emerges is merely a precondition for the next transformation, never an endpoint.

Here, "walk" no longer means linear movement from a start point to an endpoint, but rather a continuous participation within emergent structures: direction is constantly rewritten, paths are constantly generated, and the individual can neither fully control nor detach from it. Thus, viewing no longer confronts a predetermined object, but enters into a continuously changing system.

Therefore, Flow: Infinite Walk is not an exhibition about "flow", but a proposal about a way of being: when everything is reduced to particles and relationships, when boundaries, order, and form appear only as momentary pauses, we may need to rethink our own position — not as external observers, but as part of emergence itself, existing in the process where order has not yet stabilized and form has not yet solidified. It is precisely in this continuous incompleteness that we come to understand anew: the world is not constructed, but constantly happening.

By Fei Jun

马克西姆·热斯科夫 游境 02·感知海洋

静帧截图｜2026

Maxim Zhestkov Playscapes 02: Sentient Ocean

Still image | 2026

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Maxim Zhestkov（马克西姆·热斯科夫 b.1985）是一位居住在伦敦的数字艺术家、设计师兼导演，他运用新兴技术探索各种媒介中的模拟现实。他拥有建筑和设计背景，自2001年起开始从事计算机生成图像创作，力图突破物质世界的局限。在他的职业生涯中，他从插画转向动画，并进一步涉足互动媒介，始终秉持着对技术潜力的探索，致力于激发创造力并拓展视觉语言。

Maxim持续构想新的世界，深化我们对宇宙中存在的各种现象的理解。他将建筑、雕塑与自然算法融合，形成独特的美学路径，为表现多种概念奠定基础——从物理现象、未来科技，到哲学思想与具身的非人类主体。

作为游戏公司Cosmos Interactive和创意 XR 工作室FUN AND AWE的创始人兼总监，Maxim 致力于探索互动技术的各个方面及其在讲述不受线性叙事限制的故事方面的潜力。他以实时引擎为主要工具，拓展视野，构建全新的世界，并创作基于情感化的非语言故事。

Maxim Zhestkov is an artist and director who uses emergent technology to explore simulated realities in a variety of mediums. Coming from the architecture and design background, he started working with the computer-generated imagery in 2001 to create behind the limits of the material world. Moving from illustration to animation and further to interactive mediums during the course of his career, Zhestkov is guided by his interest in the potential of the technology to support creativity and expand his visual language.

In his work, Zhestkov continuously imagines new worlds and expands the understanding of the phenomena present in our universe. He blends architecture, sculpture, and natural algorithms to form a distinct aesthetic approach that becomes a foundation for representing a variety of concepts — from physical phenomena and futuristic technology to philosophical ideas and embodied non-human agents.

As a founder and director of a game company Cosmos Interactive and a creative XR studio FUN AND AWE, Maxim is exploring different sides of interactive technology and its potential to tell stories that are not bounded by the linear narrative. By using real-time engines as his main tool, he expands his vision to build the entire new worlds and create stories based on emotional non-verbal storytelling.