Suspense is distinguished by its narrative character. The series presents a number of places captured worldwide as sets for films, the scripts for which are, according to the artist, yet to be written. Parchikov pictures the world in slices and episodes, highlighting its often overlooked outlandishness and beauty. Captured by the artist’s lens, the world appears both trivial and dramatic, familiar and strange. Many shots were taken at night, and the light from the street lamps, which pervades the scenes, sharpens the objects, making them appear mysterious and threatening. The play of contrasting colour temperatures makes the images seductive and harrowing at the same time.

In cinema, suspense denotes unresolved conflict, an undecided outcome, vague and inexplicable anxiety. Suspense project is the visual manifesto of the new lost generation of young people who acquired complete freedom of information and movement at the turn of the century. Having no integrated system of values, they were unexpectedly confronted by complete isolation despite the illusion of all-pervasive communication. Their lives are a lonely journey in search of lost self-identification. Any halting point and encounter with reality for them becomes a form of suspense.