student projects

electropolis : multiple projection environment / 2009

Electropolis is a reflection upon the idea of the city as a gist of visual inconsistencies. It is an enterprise in paraphrasing the impressions engraved into the minds and feelings of the contemporary city’s inhabitants; it is an attempt to mirror the matter of informational excess and heterogeneity - principally “urban” characteristics, while encapsulating the idea of dream that stretches towards the realm where transience and fluidity, elusiveness and incoherence take over certainty. In the composite photographs, which become animated by the power of light, the city appears as a set of phantasmagorical illusions.

Electropolis presents a concentration of urban space, in which distances coalesce into a single point, while the perspective is synthesized and fragmented, dense with information and rich in details. We can no longer read the city as a totality: it is heterogeneous, unfolding and evasive, it is a terrain where contiguity of architecture and media, speed and light occurs.

transparency / 2009

In the imagery, the city reveals itself in complexities and contradictions, juxtapositions and ambiguities of scale, space and form. By depicting an overwhelming grandeur of the built environment I am questioning legibility of space, stability of its solid architectural form and overall interrogating the post-human phenomenon of the metropolis.
There is a contrast between the present drive towards all-encompassing transparency and security as distinctive features of the postmodern society and the eerie atmosphere of the cities under the cover of darkness. Cities at night are a distinctly troubled space, which adjusts our sensorial parameters and makes the inhabitant follow the vector of anxiety and confusion. The theme of estrangement, puzzling dislocation seats on the surface of the images and underpins their contextual grounds. The photographs represent the city at night as an unavoidably realm of metamorphosis and weirdness, a certain kind of delirious dreamscape, where any scenarios become possible.

inertia / 2008

The photographs conveys the idea of absence and depicts the urban terrain in the unstable moment of quiescency. By encountering typically inhabited areas, but capturing them strangely devoid of physically present human beings, I am aiming to recalibrate our perceptual experience of the city. This is an endeavour to portray the city in the state of a trembling suspension, as an arresting backdrop of a theatrical arrangement waiting for the actors to enter the scene or calming down after the action has finished. The resonating atmosphere of ambience and stillness, which appears on the images, conceals sinister narratives and the perplexity of subject-matter. Although tranquility pierces the photograph, perturbation remains possible. The scene reveals itself as insecure from a sudden intervention.

the hotel / 2008

Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, this project envisages the theme of psychological unrest, concealed behind the picturesque splendor of interiors. The imagery comments on instability and delusion, approaching the issues from ex adverso and paraphrasing the idea of the uncanny. The crisp stillness and visible vacuum of images are never an absolute. The surface is a mere mystery in its misleading quietness; a matter of perturbation can abruptly break into the frame.

ghostland / 2006

This series of photographs depicts a tense and ambiguous interaction between a particular location and a person by emphasizing such notions as performativity, transcience, fragility and unpredictability of the possible scenarios, which originate in the confrontation with the material world.
In the core of the project is the consideration of sudden relationship between the outside world represented by deserted zones and the inner side and psychological realm of a human being. It examines the states of affection, isolation, escapism and vulnerability evoked by the surroundings, which are captivating and hostile simultaneously. The unexplored site influences the person, stimulates action and adventurous performances, even it is able to energize the unconscious and allow a chance encounter determine the further step in the discovery of the hidden and unfamiliar. The unknown terrain is constantly dealt to the suppression of fear, although it also serves as a catalyst of curious desire to discover the mysterious and obscure.