Ilya Fomin (Laznes Binch)
Digital artist exploring perception, memory, and the mutable nature of visual language

Ilya Laznes Binch (b. 1980), the artistic pseudonym of Ilia Fomin, is a digital visual artist whose work investigates the reimagining of perception in the contemporary digital condition. His name—a distorted echo of the phrase “business lunch”—serves as an artistic statement in itself, suggesting a fragmented, fluid reality where visual and semantic elements are constantly shifting within an unstable equation. Working with digital tools since the late 1990s, Laznes Binch developed his practice in opposition to traditional artistic education. Raised in the studio of a classical painter, he chose to explore early digital media—Photoshop, 3DS Max, and other software—not only as tools, but as spaces for disruption. His artistic language emerged from this collision: rigorous, layered, deliberately unstable.

At the core of his work lies an engagement with memory as process—unfixed, collective, and endlessly restructured. Like the elusive flower from The Mystery of the Third Planet, his images capture transient moments of vision, unraveling a sequence of imagined, emotionally charged states. Through collage, visual sampling, and the fragmentation of digital surfaces, he constructs a speculative archaeology of perception.

His practice is rooted in digital media and the logic of the screen. Found imagery, scanned textures, corrupted files, and detritus from the internet’s visual flow become raw material for layered compositions. His artworks often present no linear narrative; instead, they exist as dense visual environments—composite memories, filtered through time, interface, and emotion. “Each image is dated,” he notes, “turning a captured moment into an abstract form, an emotional imprint.”

Laznes Binch’s works are rich in texture, chromatic contrast, and formal tension, inviting viewers not to decode, but to intuit—to experience ambiguity as part of the digital condition itself.

Selected Exhibitions

– Color vs. Black & White, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow (2024)
– Ontdek, Roman de Vero Gallery, Antwerp (2024)
– Vulnerable Video Art Festival, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg (2024)
– Kunst Terra, Kunstera Gallery, Zurich (2021)
– Messages from Russia, Belroy’s Bijou Space, Antwerp (2020)