branch of art discovery here in london. and we ve been working with looking at russian avant garde forgeries for the last 12 years since the business was founded. my name is denis and i m the director of hephaestus analytical, and we specialise in developing technologies to eliminate forgery from the art market. so we hope that al becomes a scalable solution that, together with connoisseurship, together with chemical analysis, is able to eliminate the vast majority of forgeries from the market. one of the problems that s commonly seen, the word forgery gets tossed around all the time and it makes it sound very cloak and dagger, very criminal, very intentional. and sometimes it is. in other cases, it s not so criminal, it s not so intentional. it s more a case of things