ADH Gallery in collaboration with HOMEART at Cosmoscow 2025 is united by the theme of a cosmic phenomenon known as the Delta Aquariids. Every year from mid-July to the end of August, one of the most delicate meteor showers can be observed in the night sky. Its peak falls at the end of July, but individual meteors remain visible until mid-September. These fleeting flashes of light are a reminder of the universe and the beauty that exists beyond time.

This year, the booth presents works by four artists: Julian Mayor, Yan Tikhonenko, Ustina Yakovleva, and the creative duo OKOEMO. Each of them approaches the theme of transience, the transformation of matter, and light in their own way. Like meteors, these works exist both in the moment and beyond it, opening up multi-layered meanings born at the intersection of the elements and time.

Julian Mayor’s collectible design objects appear as fragments of extraterrestrial matter — like meteorites that have crossed the atmosphere and frozen in a single moment. Their emergence recalls the effect of the Delta Aquariids — sudden, dazzling, and mesmerizing. These are not just pieces of furniture, but material embodiments of an encounter with another reality. His objects captivate with polished surfaces that reflect everything around them, creating the sensation that they are not of this world, but have arrived from another planet, leaving behind a glittering trail. Their geometry is precise, like the calculation of a celestial body’s trajectory, while the forms resemble fragments of future architecture frozen on Earth. These works seem at once natural and technological — containing mathematical rigor and a near-cosmic detachment. They may be perceived as artifacts left from an astronomical event, or as memories of an encounter with something impossible to fully explain.

Mayor works primarily with stainless steel polished to a mirror finish, while also experimenting with copper, brass, and bronze. Each material is revealed as a component of a landscape from another planet: cold, heavy, yet reflecting light with almost ephemeral ease. Every work is produced by hand in the artist’s workshop in Doncaster, Yorkshire (UK), where digital modeling is combined with artisanal processes. The result is a body of objects that escape conventional categories — simultaneously functional and autonomous, like cosmic bodies with their own orbit and gravity.

The passage of time — as well as its stillness in the absence of measurement — inspires Yan Tikhonenko. Working with the very fabric of the Earth — sand, clay, rust, metal, and dust — the artist creates works in which the material and the cosmic are interwoven at a profound level. In his series of works made from soil, Tikhonenko seems to capture “imprints” of another dimension: landscape structures reminiscent of planetary surfaces, traces of meteorite impacts, and solidified forms as if left by contact with an extraterrestrial body.

His series can be perceived as the archaeology of the future: we gaze upon them as fragments of a distant civilization or as messages from space. Their surfaces — rough, vulnerable, “unfinished” — seem to record not only matter, but also processes that occur beyond our field of vision: erosion, burning, sedimentation. Tikhonenko invites viewers to pause and tune in to a different flow of time — not the hurried human one, but planetary time: slow, tectonic, indifferent, and beautiful.

Tikhonenko’s multi-object panel is not merely a composition of separate elements, but a “living” stream, frozen in matter yet continuing to move in the perception of the viewer. The panel can be read as an abstract map of a meteor shower, a landscape shaped by fleeting collisions, or an astronomical diagram. Each object is an autonomous entity, yet together they create a rhythm that evokes the pulsation of the cosmos.

Ustina Yakovleva creates her own world, where jellyfish transform into images reminiscent of mysterious cosmic beings. Their tentacles unfold chaotically in space, evoking associations with weightless, ephemeral creatures gliding through the infinity of the cosmos. These fluid forms remind us of the multitude of life forms, not only earthly but also extraterrestrial, of the boundless diversity of life in the universe. Yakovleva’s installation becomes a visual reflection of another dimension, where flowing movements merge into a cosmic dance, filling the space with energy and mystery.

The creative duo OKOEMO presents a copper, hand-aged panel composed of 36 small copper squares, united in a single turbulent visual dialogue. Each square is like a separate universe, where sharp angles meet rounded forms, and cold blue shades border on richly textured surfaces. The combination of patinas and textures conveys the feeling of an ancient cosmogony — a myth of the world’s creation, where order emerges from primordial chaos. The central motif of OKOEMO’s works is the overcoming of chaos. Through their unique visual language, the duo embodies eternal cosmic motion — the creation of order out of chaos — revealing the profound connections between nature, matter, and the universe.

Within the fair, the artists transport the viewer into a state of participation in the cosmic rhythm, where the boundary between observer and phenomenon dissolves. The Delta Aquariids are not only a fleeting celestial event but also a philosophical stance: to accept that we are not the main characters in this scenario, but one of the many forms of matter illuminated by a flame that ignited millions of years ago.