Dima Ptitsyn is a multidisciplinary artist from Samara. He is a graduate of the St. Petersburg school of contemporary photography DocDocDoc and the Baza Institute, and has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Victoria Gallery, and the Stella Art Foundation. He explores themes of consumer culture, identity, and collective memory.

His final project, based on his art residency, explores the disappearance of stray dogs from the center of Nizhny Novgorod and their displacement to the city's outskirts. The artist examines traces of their presence: archives and statistics, attack sites, and the operation of crematoriums and cemeteries. These sites reveal a symptom of absence: dogs become not bodies but symbols through which society experiences its own losses.

"All Dogs Go to Heaven" is an attempt to understand how the city ritualizes the disappearance of animals, turning them into a mirror of human fears, desires, and memories. The project is part of the Nizhny Novgorod Region's art residency program, which aims to develop creative industries and contemporary art in the region. The program is supported by the Nizhny Novgorod Region government and the Center 800.

Photos courtesy of Center 800