R² is a collaboration between a researcher and an artist. We have been traveling together for 36 years — through both the physical and virtual worlds.
Along the way, we seek what slips through the cracks of simplified reality — what escapes direct sight but lingers in textures, shadows, the trembling of air, the persistence of echoes. We are drawn to traces of absence, moments of incompleteness, and quiet suggestion.
When observing natural or human-made environments — landscapes, buildings, structures — we often sense a kind of unfinishedness. These places feel like scattered fragments of a hologram, inviting us to complete the visible with a ghostly, multidimensional presence. Not through imagination alone, but through deep attention.
Sometimes this leads to artistic actions, temporary installations, or the uncovering of a message — a riddle embedded in the object itself.
We call this approach Revealed Realism — a practice in which reality is not replaced, but extended.
This is not mystification.
This is a method of attentiveness.
Projects: The Quarry as Witness, Deer Stones, Miniks, Enigma Travel Detective, To understand — one must walk Shoot for Color
Methods: Revealed Realism, Betweenness, Design of Remembrance
CV: Marina Razheva & Dmitry Razhev
Selected Publications: Cappadocia: A Very Curious Place (2008)