A short outline of the various operative and productive strategies involved allows us to surmise that the activities of Vadim Zakharov the adventurer circumscribe a field that has become so vast after 25 years of unceasing, intensive work that it is almost impossible to gain any complete overview. Each piece – including installations, actions, videos, objects, as well as the issues of the journal Pastor – are part and parcel of a larger hard-to-define whole whose only constant is a continual process of transformation. The desire for new vantage points and altered axes of perspective can be understood as the central motor for Zakharov’s artistic endeavors. This desire makes itself manifest in numerous actions and journeys. Taking place under a variety of auspices, their common object is the exploration of the unconscious and of metaphysical experience.