GIANT

  • AWARDS

    2022 - Winner Global Peace Photo Award2023 - Short-List BarTur Photo Award London2023 - Short-List VincentVan Gogh Award Niderlands 2022 - Short-List Pinchuk Art Prize Ukraine2022 - Short-List GUP New Talent Niderlands 2021 - Short-List NidaOFF Lithuania

  • EXHIBITIONS

     -Solo Exhibition2023 - GIANT/ROOTS Odesa National Fine Arts Museum Odesa, Ukraine 2023 - GIANT/ROOTS SCLAD#5 Gallery Cherkasi Ukraine
    -Selected Group Exhibition 2024 - "Luboshi ta Pestoshi" YAGallery, Lviv, Ukraine2023 - Vincent Van Gogh award exhibition , Nuen Center Niderlands 2023 - “Krieg”,Vitrine – Mainz, Germany2022 - Baroque Gallery Ukraine2022 - Pinchuk Art Center Kyiv2022 - «Ukraine» Honover Germani2022 - Miami Art Basel2022 - The Truth, Symbols And Memes Of Ukrainian Resistance Torronto2022 - Rotlich FestivalViena2022 - Web Samite Portugal2022 - Myph Exhibition Demchuk Gallery Kyiv2022 Oil Blood Liberty ,Under Biennale, Venice2022 Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 Believe2022 "Ukraine I MissYou" London, England2022 «umso Stärker Schlägt Mein Herz", Kunstraum Kreuzlingen – Kreuzlingen, Switzerland 2022 Oil Blood Liberty, Kunsthalle Hannover – Hannover, Germany2022 Momentum Gallery 07: Derealization. Cracow Art Week Krakers Crakow2022 Art for all Nft Gallary Prague2022 Momentum Gallery 06 – No Longer Valid , Krakow2022 Galerie N° 15 No War , Cochem , Germany2021 Momentum Gallery "Traces Of The Future" Krakow Poland2021 «Tрансформація» Modi Art&wine Gallery Kyiv, Ukraine2021 ""No Tabu" Kharkiv Vovatanya" Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

  • PRINTED PUBLICATIONS

    MYPH BOOKUkraine RisingGUPNEW 2022RE-EDITION ISSUE 17 REEDETIONMAG HOTBOOK

  • WORKS IN GALLERY/MUSEUM

    Grynyov Art Foundation Collection – Kyiv, Ukraine
    Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography Collection – Kharkiv, Ukraine
    Ukrainian House – Kyiv, Ukraine
    The Odesa National FineArts Museum – Odesa,Ukraine

  • DESCRIPTION

    Giant (2020-2022)The first images in the Giant project were inspired by the Covid restrictions. The breakdown of communication, the disintegration of established communication ties, isolation and loneliness - all this became an incentive to pick up the camera and plunge into self-reflection in these forcedly abnormal and harsh conditions. With the relaxation of the regime, the spatial horizons of studying my non-trivial body naturally opened up before my lens. As a result, it all turned into a kind of adventure, a journey of the body; the Big Body. I tried to turn the mise-en-scene of the story into a mythological realm; into a story about the life of some legendary giants. If I try to define the genre of the project, it will be difficult because of its hybridity and blurring. In fact, it is a self-portrait, but in an entourage, including landscapes. The unique quality of the project is its everyday life. Thanks to this diffuseness, the study of the inner world becomes as important as the visual delineation and construction of the outer world. The merging, not the opposition of these worlds gives "Giant" its harmonious naturalness, integrity and figurative appeal.
    In my photographs I am always naked, because for me the body is always sincerity and openness, and I want to be as honest as possible with the viewer. The attitude to the naked body, say, in ancient times (art historians even have such a concept as "heroic nudity of a mature man"), or in our era of total and flattering selfies, Instagram exhibitionism, unrestrained demonstration of fitness beauty. At the same time, I try to do this without the help of accompanying bodily sexuality. It is absent in my project; the question of the body is exhausted by the body as such.  In "Giant" the large form prevails. The figures seem to be sculptural, emphasized three-dimensional. Their relief seems to be implanted in a 2D picture, inside it. The project, which includes more than a hundred subjects, shows different approaches to shooting on location.. The giant awakens empathy with his spontaneity and openness. And if a portrait of a person is their story, then the space around the object builds its meaning. 

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