Body Art
I have worked with painting, graphics, sculpture, illustration, photography and body art and through all of them I explored the borders between them, but i
never intend to put artwork in those separate boxes. I could make a painting using found objects, because it is the way I intended it and worked on it. But could painting on a human’s
body be considered as an actual painting using an unusual canvas instead of body art?
never intend to put artwork in those separate boxes. I could make a painting using found objects, because it is the way I intended it and worked on it. But could painting on a human’s
body be considered as an actual painting using an unusual canvas instead of body art?
Body art in its sense for me has no difference to a painting, except that it’s temporary, which brings this medium closer to nature, as everything natural has a moment of its creation and it also dies. That’s what was important to see in the timeline of these photos - is the perfection of its beginning and slow destruction. Human body for me is a canvas, which shapes actually guide and its texture breathes.
‘How many years of other figures do we have?’
In collaboration with photographer Sophie Vinnichenko and model Alina Romanovna we made a project that later on became an editorial for PASIKA magazine.
I made the body art, which was the beginning of my exploration of body art beyond of its usual understanding, inspired by the natural flow of nature and human shape
everything, including the body art itself, was an improvisation - trip somewhere far, finding
locations, creating accessory out of found natural materials and people walking around and watching the sunrise.
The title and the project concept was a reflection of our surroundings in the process and strangers that spontaneously influenced us.
The project is based around incorporating nature and humans. it’s an exploration of the beginnings in streams of our consciousness, ways of self-expression as well as what is outside of it - society. it’s a reconnection between them both external and internal parts of us and attempt of resurrecting the relationship between ‘us’ and ‘it’. this project is about the strong desire - for us creators, models, fishermen, old ladies bathing in salty waters early mornings - to see a sunrise.