After six years of work, V–A–C Sreda online-magazine is closing and will be transformed into an archive. In this issue, we present a work by artist Julia Kartoshkina.

Hunters at Rest is an homage to Vasily Perov’s 1871 painting of the same name. Kartoshkina retains the original work’s key elements — three hunters, a rifle, a dog, and birds — while playing freely with scale, composition, and detail. This “reassembly” of one of the best-known paintings in the history of Russian art invites reflection on how cultural memory is constructed and where the boundary lies between an original and its many reinterpretations.