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In the work of Yuri Albert, who is an artist dealing with texts in several works, what stands in the first place is an artistic contemplation of the very possibility to consider and to shape the perception of text, the ways of its reading or reflection. What Albert highlights is the physical connection between the text, its reference field and the recipient, the mediality of the writing/painting and also a study of the very visibility of text and prerequisites of its – tactile – perception. The unique materiality of text is historically and typologically connected with the specific conceptualization and functioning of samizdat, a phenomenon, which influenced not only soviet cultural history, but also its artistic means. This fact finds in Alberts works a thin, although indirect expression. A special role from the point of view of the visibility of the text plays the theme of the connection of artistic act with blindness and the method of drawing by ashes from the burned books. In the concept of drawing as the transfer of authors body into the picture, Albert emphasizes the process of the physical perception of invisibility and of what is not possible to depict. Creating self-portraits by ashes from his favorite books, the author connects radically, brutally and sentimentally at the same time, his intimate nexus to works of literature with the raw material of pictures/books, based on the burning/painting process.