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The photographic series titled Domestication (2013) gives viewers privileged access to a new housing estate quite far away from central Moscow. It targets an ambitious middle-income segment of the market and is furnished with items from IKEA. Chernysheva lets us spy on prospective buyers trying to act as if they owned the place already. The absurdity of calculating living space in square metres – while human life always plays out in three dimensions – prompted Chernysheva to emulate the flattening perspective of 18th century Japanese woodcuts.