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"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is today Ukraine. I was a huge fan of drawing as a child; I even won several prizes. After high-school I went on to study economics. However, I wasn't satisfied with the possibility of working full-time at the workstation of a boring, dusty office. So I decided to try the art field seriously. This resulted in me enrolling in the class that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat, a teacher from Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is a significant method of creating unimaginable, imagined realms.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical images and forms - this is what I love to imagine and visualize. Of course, in my younger years, as with everyone, I started with my surroundings, but very soon felt unhappy with the interpretation of the most well-known facts about visuals.
The attempt to create any variation that is possible and artefacts that are not known to me inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
What is your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my attempt to create bio-inspired living organisms and new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism can be described as a method to develop art objects which convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic biology. Bioism is a method to make art using energy, variety and complexity. Each of my artworks as an actual living thing. Bioism brings life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I am convinced that in the coming years after an evolutionary revolution, we'll use living furniture, live in living houses, and travel in space using living stations. However, the most interesting thing will be the ability of artists to use living materials, and thus create novel forms of life. The art form will take on an actual sensation of birth. It could be a reaction of the art object to its creator and its surroundings. Art museums of the future could turn into zoological gardens and galleries, they could be transformed into biodiversity funds, and art galleries into biology labs.
Bioism aims to spread new and endless types of life across the universe. Paradise engineering represents an advance in bioethics...
The manifesto I see it, can never be completed, since I'm a biochemical process, which is currently working on it."
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What are the most important factors in making your installation?
"I am trying to avoid any primitive geometrics: no straight lines, even no lines at all, if possible. I'm chasing the intersection between micro and macro on a daily basis.
Anything that isn't understood, or too complex is immediately recognized by our inner eye as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is the most deep and most complex information architecture of our planet."
The church is a formal space. Are you stressed to make within such a space?
"It depends on your inner desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have in your understanding of your place in the human universe. Personally, I've got no idea about the concept of time, space and all their amazing wonders. So when I go to a church, I feel like a curious child in the vast and mysterious playground that is a part or communication capability.
I try to be respectful toward its artistry, but I do not overlook its fun side that is speaking to the Deity. It's a little like an XXL-style phone booth, where you can talk while trying to understand you could also laugh."
What is your level of charge of the creation process and what percentage of the process is all biological?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging endeavor. My eyes and ear will be listening to the possibility of a new tune or form, that speaks to me and touches my imagination. However, it's not a an all-in-one process, where you are an mining machine, finding the most interesting gems and throwing a plethora of non-interesting options to your back. This is not for me.
My fascinations are often combined along with other possibilities minor to achieve not only pleasant music, but a deviative revelation also. One of the most rewarding aspects of my work is the ability to compose new world while you already feel how it should look like. There are times when you dream or even during the night when you are sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I make my own world, the more joys I get, where chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Do you enjoy creating, or do you get something else out of it? Like the practice of meditation, or communicating with your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. Also, I create as I discover myself and see the extent to which I might surprise my own self and also how much the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves all possible activities on this strange pathway. Sometimes it gets funny, in fact, sometimes I need more adrenalin I head out in the world to perform an an."
What led you towards bioism? What were you experimenting with prior to you made the switch?
"The first steps were rather normal: I remember how happy I was about my half-drawing-half-painting of the tractor in the field for which I was praised in kindergarten.
Later I fell in love with landscape drawing, where I could sit in the grass for hours at a time and try to sketch nature's movements on the cardboard. In the end, I created several portraits. However, I was dissatisfied and frustrated by the flatness of any reproduced human face (including in videos and photographs), that I stopped. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell fell off and I was revealed as the phoenix (or Godzilla). That means that I became closer to the truth of existence. What does that mean? The idea isn't to define the current one, but to compose the new one. It was the first day of bioethics and my bioism."
As I perused your IG I thought that bioism could be interested in homelessness in LA...
"But it was a contrary narrative that it was freezing in the streets, and lonely people where happy to receive any touch from a human, to be able to hear the Christmas tale of the newborn bioism and to play with little blue children of it.
The naked poverty on the beaches of Hollywood may trigger to take a completely different route - I have to imagine the philosophical aspects of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."
To view more of his body of work and explore bioism in greater depth, look up his Instagram and the current installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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