Conceptual nominee

Our Universe is vast and diverse. But what we know about it is actually based on our five senses. What we can see, feel, hear, scent or taste. But even such great instruments allow us discovering only the tiniest part of it. And what is there, beyond the five senses? What if there are billions of other Universes in your cup of tea? What if every cell of our body has its own intelligent life far beyond our understanding? What if our emotions are alive and intelligent too? What is our World from their inner point of view?
A series of art “Outward” is a result of searching for an answer about finding a Universe inside human beings. What you would find there? What is the inner life like? Let’s look inward, inside our new, undiscovered Universe!

Artist statement

I have been always bewildered and astonished by the wonder of life. Who are we? Why did we come here? What’s next? Since childhood I knew that my feelings and dreams are much more real than the tangible world around me. Our feelings are the thing that impacts us and our relationship with the world, being the ruler of the individual reality of every single person.
In my works I try to show the world, birth, life and death the way I feel them, and not the way I see them. My works are the visualization of the feelings and sensations. Art for me is a way to show a viewer something they can feel, bet cannot verbalize, it is a way to speak to their soul with no words. It is a way to explore the world and the nature of a human soul.
I like working with a photograph. Using paints and a brush an artist puts something they want to see on the canvas and only the way they want it to be, while a camera reflects the real world on the photo the way the camera sees it. And that is why the creation of a picture through photography is much more complicated. It requires a lot of work with the scene and the light, and post-editing so the final picture doesn’t contain any unwanted details and so that it fully reflects the initial idea. I am interested in creating my photographs the way they convey feelings and senses, and not the physical reality. The aesthetic beauty of my works is very important to me as well.