A stag made of dung and sticks may nowadays turn out to be the altar of a forest deity, the centrepiece of a spa salon's lounge area and a showpiece at an art exhibition

A stag made of dung and sticks may nowadays turn out to be the altar of a forest deity, the centrepiece of a spa salon's lounge area and a showpiece at an art exhibition. This handsome fellow is the work of Ho Gui, an art collective that calls smoke a metaphor for an ever-changing culture.

Ground Solyanka has opened an exhibition, “Apophenia”, about man in a state of apophenia. That is the urge to find phantom connections: in short, what most of your acquaintances do when they track which rat liked whose post on Instagram, or when a young man on a first date shows you a photograph of a cloud and says that a cumulus hare foretold your meeting. On the one hand, trying to make out faces on the fresh plaster of a lavatory wall that hint at your next steps is silly. On the other, it is an important stage of creativity. Alexey Bevza, Alice Bertrand and Régine Petavan, Alisa Gorshenina, Asya Zaslavskaya, Diana Kapizova, Dasha Kuznetsova, Tabita Rezaire and Ho Gui, under the curation of Monica North and Maya Nesterenko, have prepared graphic works, paintings, sculptures, installations and even video