Groping after, 2014

 Immersion, 2014  

In this project I wanted to open up the theme of how our memory works in its selectivity, subjectivity and discrepancy. Immersing is the travel inside yourself and the past and the filing of everything that you meet on the way. Certainly, I didn’t wanted to illustrate memories, I’d like to believe that from memories it is possible to create the kind of artistic image that is typical of people of my generation or even for people more generally. It’s surprising as these things are combined into one card of memories; something that seemed common and everyday looks absolutely different for all.

Investigating this idea I have chosen some key themes. My house, friends, nature, a family. These clear and concrete images, nevertheless, do not always arise in memory how we would like. We look at a photo where we are among a happy family and we remember only the departed silhouette of a mother. When someone wants to recall an image of a friend, he comes up with only the color of his jacket. Somehow, my project develops the things that we consider central to ourselves, but these things also happen to be absolutely vaguely unidentified.

The immersion in the past — an attempt to leave my past by creating new images to replace lost ones. There are fleeting sensations which can be more important than official memories are considered to be. They talk about our life and many more truths. The edge between art and realistic perception of life is very thin and sometimes vanish completely.  

Yanina Boldyreva & Oleksandr Isaienko “Index lost”, 2014

This is the story of a certain place, being real and beyond at the same time, since all the evidences — beach, water, sky, fog — tell nothing about it, but can only show its abstractness and generalization.

Detached and defocused view, empty and faded landscapes, being filled with the presence of people with no specific features, don’t expressing themselves, as if they are plunged into lethargy.

Many of our pictures have been taken with the use of glass as a filter in order that intentionally a void the documentary and with draw the image into the plane of the subjective, as well as create a distance between reality and the observer. However, the camera snatched those moments where the landscape and the human are most expressive, and reveal some kind of their state.

Logbook, 2014

This project shows space surrounding me as the post-apocalyptic world. It stands empty of people, architecture and consist only of ruins which indicate the past developments.

 I`v been watch at the landscape as if I was some astronaut who has visited the planet after years he abandoned it.
Therefore, these work pretends to express his personal experiences concerning the myth about the lost past and impossibility to begin new life mixed up with the field notes documentary.

These landscapes are both an abstract nothing and a very concrete space of the provincial post-Soviet space, with its ruins of the Soviet era, unfinished buildings of the 90s, residential areas and wastelands. Places of forced labor, such as a marble quarry, or garbage dumps, snow become romantic mysterious places. This is my way of accepting the reality in which I live.

  Bassogigas, 2011  

Bassogigas is considered the most deep-water fish. Because of it I chose it as a metaphor of the personal unconscious.
The project considers various emotional states which send us to preverbal level of existence. Under that condition we feel like not as the social person but as the living being who instinctively react to irritants.Is our sense of self strong enough? Maybe it conveys some vague visual images, so unclear and constantly changing.
One existential feeling flows into another. In this project  my point was to catch these conditions. But I`m evading  to name them because it seems to me that any attempt to  describe it will bring them  to another aspect of our perception where they will lose any meaning. So I just follow them by means of my camera.  

Broken space, 2011-2017

 The reality is frail, ambiguous, and is in constant existential movement if to follow it, it is possible to receive the new picture of the world full of unexpected interrelations and senses. The same as torn threads bare lining clothes, its latent structure and the same as casually pulled out word finds out the latent thoughts and the associations, the fabric of visual space torn by the camera gives fuller portrait of life in which an external reality and the mental world of the person inseparably linked and it is mutual-are changed.