Artist Statement

I work with documentary and conceptual photography, installation, and mockumentary. In my projects, I explore themes of identity transformation in relation to technological development, as well as the ideas of technological utopias and social isolation. I often focus on small or marginalized social groups as a reflection of the structural distortions in contemporary society. I’m particularly interested in how technological progress, the growth of megacities, and digitalization affect the human mind and our ability to socially adapt.

In my first project, Journey to the Edge of the Room, I studied people who have voluntarily given up live human interaction, confining themselves within their homes and maintaining contact with the outside world exclusively through the internet.

In my second project, I create portraits and landscapes of beings that are now typical for large cities — entities that form a peculiar urban ecosystem. I reflect on whether the city, as a habitat, is truly a space for humans. I placed these creatures into “New Year’s souvenirs,” turning them into rightful symbols of today’s urban ecological conditions.

My third project examines the loss of the dream of space travel and exploration in contemporary society, replaced by endless and meaningless consumption.

The fourth project, The Fifth Quarter, is a mockumentary photobook in which I explore how society might change with the advent of human body bioengineering.