# My story

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> *"In 1913, when I made a desperate attempt to free art from the weight of things, I exhibited a painting that was nothing more than a black square on a white ground \[...] It was not an empty square that I exhibited, but rather the sensation of non-objectivity."* *Ka*z*imir Malevich*

**It is the year 1915.** The Black Square is a recurring motif in several of my paintings. The first version was shown in my exhibition 0,10 in 1915, where I placed it at the highest point of the corner of the room with the image surface slightly tilted down, surrounded by other of my paintings. The Black Square thus occupied the space in the corner of the Lord God reserved for a religious icon in a traditional Russian home. In this way I illustrated the absence of objects and initiated the beginning of abstraction. But was that really all?

**Significantly later and having arrived at the present time**, you humans, with the help of forensic tools, were finally able to figure out that I had hidden a message underneath the black square.

What message do you think it is?\
To this day, no one has been able to unravel it, so I now come back to illuminate my legacy to you.

Are you prepared?&#x20;

Follow me.
