"Hearthrug"

gelatin silver print on Dibond

My project is entirely devoted to a comprehension of a stunning technology discovered about 150 years ago that has become very commonplace and everyday in recent times thanks to its mass distribution as a very convenient tool for the conveying of information.
I tried to lay out and note the striking semantic and spatial emphases that form both the process itself and the discussion around modern photography.
The series of works follows a principle whereby the experience of modern art is founded on contradiction, on non-conformism, and a thesis which maintains that every subsequent step rejects the preceding step. As a result of that, I’m continuing my experiment in the changing of "photography’s state of equilibrium," taking it out of the sphere of a documentary reflection of events and into the space of the atmospheric and the purely sensual.
Exhibiting the project as site-specific art, I’m striving to get the spectator involved in the scene of the installation, further activating his sensitivity.
"The border of the division" — that’s the main conceptual highway around which the body of the composition of the project is constructed. The constructive element is the direct negative and the large photo accumulation.
Why specifically the border?
The border implies a broad range of opening horizons and vectors in notional tendencies. The border and marginality are fields that haven’t been studied in great depth In the photographic process. Photography is so objective that this super-reality firmly links us with stereotypes of interpretation, shackling the imagination. Nevertheless, it is the border of the "negative — positive" division that fundamentally links the concepts of "before" and "after".
A key role in the installation is played by the unfolding story of a journey between realities that are both objective, as they have been through the obyektiv — the Russian for "lens" — and been captured, but there are qualitative differences in content, as they are elements in the world and anti-world — who or what lies on which side is for you to decide.
(Maxim Ksuta)