What is the cultural code of Russia - and how does it manifest in painting? Asya Susanina reflects on identity, folklore, memory, and heritage in a project where ancient images and modern techniques come together in a multilayered visual narrative. At the heart of the exhibition is the idea of the cultural code as a set of stable symbols, images, and meanings that shape the perception of a nation and its spiritual uniqueness. Asya Susanina contemplates how national identity is formed, what forces influence it, and what the visual language capable of conveying this diversity might be. The project encompasses several levels - from historical and ethnographic to subjective and intuitive. The author speaks of Russia as a space of coexistence of religions, traditions, and cultures, where a synthetic artistic language has been created over the centuries. In the works, one can catch echoes of icon painting, folk crafts, propaganda posters, book illustrations, and naive art. The artist's compositions are rich in metaphors, everyday details, and signs that evoke associative chains in the viewer. Female figures, national costumes, kokoshniks, domes, images from Russian epics, and industrial motifs appear on the canvases. All of this merges into a single, living, flowing canvas - a reflection on the past and present, on the search for a point of assembly. Asya Susanina is an artist with Ural roots, living in St. Petersburg since 2006. She has participated in dozens of exhibitions and projects in Russia and abroad, including China, Malaysia, and Germany. Her painting is an attempt to understand what it means to be part of a large cultural code today. Where to go in St. Petersburg today, look for on our website.