Castle of Children's Dreams

Perm, Russia

2026 · mapping · Theatre facade, AI + generative graphics, Prosvet festival

Architectural mapping on the facade of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre for the Prosvet light festival (Aug 28-30, 2026). Crews of plasticine monsters continuously rebuild worlds across the facade.

"Castle of Children's Dreams" is my work for the Prosvet light festival, on the facade of the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in Perm (Aug 28-30, 2026).

The idea: small plasticine monster crews continuously rebuild worlds across the facade - kneading with their paws, arguing, checking blueprints, redoing what they built a second ago. A world is never "finished": there's building, admiring, arguing, and building again.

The theatre becomes a night-light - the warm glow switched on before sleep. Inside the cycle there's also an anxious layer: darkness, fear, an eclipse nobody built. But the story's ring closes with reconciliation and one warm window.

The material was built as plasticine stop-motion animation: hundreds of generated facade "worlds" - a chest of drawers, toy blocks, rainy pipes, a coral reef, a pipe organ, a stalactite cave - hand-picked and assembled into a single cycle of crews taking over from each other.