Dmitriy Rautin

A group of young artists has won the inaugural International Grand Prix in Berlin with a brilliant art installation that has a lot of people talking. And nobody else can win.This year’s show, called “We Could Be Anything”, is a collaboration between the young artists Yerin Boryshyn, Arash Shams, and Vadim Shumilin. The two artists, who grew up in the same Soviet country, created a unique and original display of art which is both creative and emotional. The display includes a full-sized doll in its very own body, a model of a body created by the artist that, once you touch it, transforms into a large-sized model with the same features. The artists believe that, given the right context, a person can be turned into anything. A small girl, an insect, a baby, an animal, a robot, a giant.In this one room of some 250,000 visitors, the artists placed a doll that, like their bodies, is made of thin metal, with tiny, colored wires inside her small body that will give a body the shape of any image, from a doll or a person to a dinosaur or even a robot.There is the body of a mother doll lying in a fetal position next to a human doll, who turns into a baby by touch. At one point a human is shown eating ice cream…a baby that turns into a huge dinosaur, a robot, a huge snake, a dog, or even a robot with a dog for a nose.A live model of a nude woman transforms into a dinosaur, with a dog’s nose. A live dog morphs into a naked woman, or anything, because the owner of the dog just “took the dog for an walk”.A live model of a naked woman transforms into a naked man. A live horse morphs into a man. A living human morphs into a dinosaur, or anything, because the owner of the person just “took the human”.Art historian, writer, and art critic, David Hockney, who created with the project, says it is “a unique fusion of art, technology, and the human body.”The artist is not the only one who is impressed with this brilliant artwork: “It is a brilliant artistic tribute to our own human imagination,” says Russian artist and model Vadim Shumilin.The artist says the demonstration is the start