Vitaly Turlique (b. 1988, Moscow) is a historian-archivist, artist, head of archive of the Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow. He specializes in hand embroidery, textile collage, graphics. Since 2023 he has been working exclusively with the Ruarts Gallery. In 2012 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities. As a child, Vitaly impressed by the works of the Soviet artist Geliy Korzhev, who came up with a grotesque cycle of creations dedicated to turliques, ridiculous anthropomorphic creatures, hence the pseudonym. The author himself says: “It seems to me that there are a lot of Turliques among people. Perhaps I myself am a Turlique”. A participant of Win-Win Winzavod markets, since February 2023 – a resident of the 9th season of Winzavod Open Studios. Participant of the group exhibition "Guiding Thread" (Tula, "Octava", April-July 2023). Also in 2023, he held a number of author's master classes: GES-2 (textile collage), Garage Museum (hand embroidery). “I have always had a penchant for creativity - drawing, film photography, music, but the best way I managed to express my ideas with the help of thread and fabric. At first, I interested in hand embroidery and devoted almost 3 years to this occupation. And in the fall of 2022, I was interested in a textile collage - compared to embroidery, it gives real freedom of creativity: without a preliminary sketch, you can quickly outline the desired plot, see how certain ideas will look. And everything can be completed, redone, changed during the work. The textural and color variety of materials with which you have to interact is also impressive.”