Mistral

The Mistral brand presents the mockumentary project “Artifact” in collaboration with Vova Perkin. The project's curators are Polina Belova and Maria Truntaeva.

The stand is transformed into an archaeological museum, whose exhibit showcases the research findings of the renowned professor Vladimir Vladimirovich Perkin, conducted in 2026. The stand reveals classified data and, for the first time, claims the cosmic origins of grain, as well as the involvement of an extraterrestrial civilization (UFO mouse) in the development of agriculture. It was this mouse that delivered the genetic resource of grain plants to Earth in a spaceship and taught humans how to use tools.

The project explores a significant historical stage in human history: the transition to agriculture and the beginning of grain cultivation approximately 10,000–12,000 years ago. This event became one of the most significant in the biological and social history of our species. From a physiological point of view, agriculture changed the human diet, and from a social point of view, it laid the foundation for the formation of sedentary communities, which subsequently led to the formation of states.