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6 - 17 November 2019 - 6 passage des Gravilliers, 75003 Paris Viktor & Sergiy Kochetov, Roman Pyatkovka, Sergiy Solonsky, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok Storytelling from Kharkiv : Singular Voices Curated by Nadiia Kovalchuk Events in presence of the artists : Opening Tuesday, November 5 6 - 9 p.m. Press preview Tuesday, November 5 5 - 6 p.m. Artist Talk Thursday, November 7 7 - 8 p.m. Exhibition from Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. and by app. Image : Viktor & Sergiy Kochetov, Un8tled, from series Double Panoramas, 1970s-1980s/1995, gela8n silver print, toned and hand-coloured, 17 х 60 cm, edi8on of 3

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6 - 17 November 2019 - 6 passage des Gravilliers, 75003 Paris  Viktor & Sergiy Kochetov, Roman Pyatkovka, Sergiy Solonsky, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok  Storytelling from Kharkiv : Singular Voices  Curated by Nadiia Kovalchuk Events in presence of the artists : Opening  Tuesday, November 5 6 - 9 p.m. Press preview  Tuesday, November 5 5 - 6 p.m. Artist Talk Thursday, November 7 7 - 8 p.m.  Exhibition from Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. and by app.Image:Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Un8tled,fromseriesDoublePanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,17х60cm,edi8onof3

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Isthereawaytotellthediversityofthestorieslivedbyacountryexperiencingprofoundandradicalchangesthroughtheso-called"simple"and"transparent"mediumofphotography?Thisexhibi8onproposestohighlightasingularandliPle-knowninEuropeexperienceofanoutstandingar8s8cphenomenonwithintheformerUSSR:theKharkivSchoolofPhotography.Fromthe1980sun8ltherevolu8onaryeventsofEuromaidanin2013-2014,thear8stsassociatedwiththismovementunveil,withthehelpofeminentlysubjec8veandexperimentalphotography,poli8caleventsda8ngbacktoSovietUkraineaswellascontemporaryones.Inthemid-70s,inacitythatwasthenoneofthegreatindustrialandacademiccentersoftheSovietUnion,inthisfamousKharkivian greyness, already related by Anton Chekhov in A Boring Story (1889), a group of young and ambi8ousphotographersdecidestotreatthephotographicmediuminanunconven8onalway.Despitetheconstantcensorshipoftherepressive state, this group will formulate a series of principles that will be imposed on the next two genera8ons ofphotographersfromtheKharkivSchool:thecommitmenttothecauseofphotographycapabletotransmitpowerfullytheirinnertruthandgivesubstancetotheirfundamentaldoubts,disturbing,elusiveandpolysemicphotography.Someofthesephotographers,developingaclearlypersonalaesthe8cs, reinventtherealitybydefyingthesocial taboosofrepresenta8on.ViktorKochetovemploys the "carnavaliza8on"ofeveryday life.Referring to thepopularSoviet imageryof"luriki", hemanually colors photographs capturing "non-decisive"moments, invisible in a culture centeredon a discoursepraising "heroes". The members of the Shilo group (with Vladyslav Krasnoshchok among them) make ingenious use ofphotographicmaterialthatcombinesques8oningtheSovietheritagewiththetreatmentofactualsubjectsrela8ngtotheirownexperiences.The body as a sensi8ve boundary between the outer and the in8mate worlds, as a receptacle for hidden desires, is aninstrumentusingwhichmanyphotographersoftheKharkivSchoolobserverealityandadapttoit.Facingthepainfulexperienceofasuddenlossofguidinglandmarksatthe8meofthebreakupoftheUSSR,SergiySolonskystages a disturbing spectacle of the fragmenta8on of a body. Roman Pyatkovka’s ero8c scenes hidden in the interiors ofKharkiviankommunalka, refer toa thirst forescape recallingone that suggestedby IlyaKabakov inhis installa8onAManWhoFlewintoSpacefromHisApartment(1982-1984).Thedreamsoffugue,ontheonehand,andthesummaryofwhattheseangofaSovietapartmentis,ontheotherhand,replacethesevainyetjovialaPemptsto"leapoutoftheSovietUnion"fromthein8matecontexttotherealmofsharedsocialexperience.IntheKharkivSchoolofPhotography,eachstoryrequiresanappropriateform.Thear8ststelltheirpersonalstoriesthroughawillinglyiconoclas8c,obenvisuallyexuberantphotographyandalwaysfullofplayful,insolentandsubversivespirit.

NadiiaKovalchuk

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Viktor&SergiyKochetovViktor Kochetov (1947, Kharkiv, Ukraine) has unfinished musical and engineering educa8on. He became engaged inphotographyin1968.Forover40yearshehasbeenworkingasaprofessionalphotographerinfilmandphotolaboratories,namely, in the House of Amateur Ar8sts in Kharkiv, as well as for the Southern Railway and various newspapers. AsignificantpartofhisbodyofworkwascreatedtogetherwiththesonSergiyKochetov(1972,Kharkiv,Ukraine).SergiyhasassistedViktorsincehewasateenager.Similartohisfather,heabandonedhisstudiesintheKharkivtechnicaluniversity,pursuingacareerinphotojournalisminstead.

The Kochetov’s art is based on coopera8on andmutual exchange of ideas. Their approach was shaped in the dialec8cconfronta8onwiththeauthors’photojournalistbackground:ontheonehand,it’sthe"crab"ofmakingimagesthatwouldcatchtheeyeofnewsagenciesinthehighlycompe88veatmosphere;ontheotherhand,it’sadesiretogetawayfromthefaked images ofwelfare and censorship of official reportages. Viktor and Sergiy Kochetov have shibed the focus to thescenesofbold,nonstagedrealityofthelateSoviet-Post-Soviet8mes.Theauthorsarewell-knownfortheextensiveusageofthemethodofhand-colouringofblackandwhiteprints,whichisrootedinthetradi8onof"luriki"—enlarged,retouchedandoben8ntedphotographicportraits.Itwasacommonprac8cethatevolvedintotheembodimentofkitschandimageofanaveragesovietperson.ViktorandSergiyKochetovexperienceddifferentmodali8esofthemethod,varyingintensityofcolouringandformats.AlargenumberofprintsaresingleordoublepanoramasfeaturingsceneriesofKharkiv,itsoutskirtsandotherloca8onstowhichthephotographersweresentonassignments.The"fauvis8c"coloursoftheirworksdon’tveilbutintensifytheplainnessofthereality,atthesame8merevealingthelyricalsideofmundanesubjects.

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Personalexhibi8ons2019Kochetov,theshowof“UkrContempPhoto”awardwinnerfromBirdInFlight,IZONE,Kyiv,Ukraine2018Neitherimportant,normain,orEverythingcanbesoldexceptforthepioneer’shonour,COME-INartgallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine1999AnilineMelancholy,Palitragallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine1996KharkivFineArtMuseum,Kharkiv,Ukraine1983HouseofScien8sts,Kharkiv,USSRGroupexhibi8ons(selec8on)2019Transit,AlexandrChekmenev,ViktorKochetov,OdessaStateLiteratureMuseum,Odesa,UkraineCrossinglines,curators:BjörnGeldhof,Mar8nKiefer,AliciaKnock,PinchukArtCentre,Kyiv,Ukraine2018UkrainianPhotobooks,Photobooksfes8val“XPRINT”,Rodriguezgallery,Poznan,Poland2017CityofKhA.Avant-gardeKharkiv:ResearchProject,Na8onalArtMuseum,Kyiv,Ukrain.Kharkiv.18+,asapartofOdessa/BatumiPhotoDays2017fes8val,OdesaMuseumofModernArt,Odesa,Ukraine,curator:SergiyLebedynskyy2015KharkivSchoolofPhotography:SovietCensorshiptoNewAestheScs2012Perestroika,LiberalizaSonandExperimentaSon(1980s-2010),asapartofFotoFest2012Biennial,Houston,USA2011TheDrawinglessons:UkrainianPhotography,asapartofInterna8onalPhotographyFes8valPIP,Pingyao,China2006Beachromance,MoscowHouseofPhotography,Moscow,Russia

2003Photographyfrom70s,asapartoftheInterna8onalPhotographyBiennale,Honcharygallery,Kyiv,Ukraine1999PhotographersfromKharkov,Kohlenofgallery,Nürnberg,GermanyContemporaryPhotographersoftheUkraine,Mulhouse,FranceСarteblancheàBorisMikhailov,CitéInterna8onaledesArts,Paris,FranceContemporaryUkrainianPhotography,asapartofEst-OuestFesSval,Die,France1998ADayfromLife,SorosContemporaryArtcentre,Kyiv,Ukraine1995TheArtofPhotographyfromUkraine,MasonGrossSchooloftheArts,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick,USA1994Artofcontemporaryphotography:Russia,Ukraine,Belarus,CentralHouseofAr8st,Moscow,Russia1993KharkivPhotography,MuseumofIndustrialCulture,Nürnberg,GermanyPanHorama,Tampere,Finland.Overpaintedreality,BorisMikhailov,VyctorKochetov,HouseofPopularArt,Kharkiv,UkraineArt-24Union,Basel,Switzerland1991PanHorama,Helsinki,Finland1989150YearsofPhotography,CentralHouseofAr8st,Moscow,USSR1988F-88,PalaceofStudentsofKharkivPolytechnicIns8tute,Kharkiv,USSR1987F-87,PalaceofStudentsofKharkivPolytechnicIns8tute,Kharkiv,USSR1980Interna8onalcontestAssofoto,Leipzig,Germany.1979Salonofcolourdiaposi8vesDiapol,Radom,Poland

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Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Un8tled,fromseriesDoublePanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,16,8х59,5cm,edi8onof3Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Un8tled,fromseriesDoublePanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,16,7х59,5cm,edi8onof3

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Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Un8tled,fromseriesDoublepanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,16,6х60cm,edi8onof3Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Un8tled,fromseriesDoublepanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,16,8х59,8cm,edi8onof3

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Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Un8tled,fromseriesDoublePanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,16,8х59,8cm,edi8onof3

Viktor&SergiyKochetov,TwocarsoftheUSSRluxuryclass,ZILandChaika,waitfortheirturntoberestored,fromseriesDoublePanoramas,1970s-1980s/1995,gela8nsilverprint,tonedandhand-coloured,16,9х59,5cm,edi8onof3

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Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Ukraine-Russia/Volleyball,1992,hand-colouredgela8nsilverprint,43,5х59,5cm,edi8onof5

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Viktor&SergiyKochetov,Novoselovka.TheLocomoSve-monument,1993,hand-colouredgela8nsilverprint,59х51cm,edi8onof4+1a.p.

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SergiySolonsky(1957,Osipenkovillage,Berdyanskdistrict,ZaporizhiaOblast,Ukraine)Sergiy Solonsky is one of the key personali8es of Kharkiv photographic community. Studied Chemistry at М. GrokiyKharkivStateUniversity,butabandonedthestudiesaberthethirdyear.HeaPendedthoseyearsalocalcinemaclubandgraduallygotinterestedinphotography.Hebecameanac8vepar8cipantofexhibi8onssincethelate1980s,drawingthepublic's aPen8on with his collages (BesSary series). Sergiy Solonsky’s composi8ons develop the principle of "modulecollage",whichisbasedoncrea8nganimagebyrepea8ngoneandthesameelement(PhallicHeraldryseries).Despitehisloveforstraightphotography,itrarelyappearsinSergiySolonsky’soeuvreofthe1990s,mainlyinsomeseparateshotsandtwodocumentaryseries(Let’shaveadrinkandMoonshiners).

SergiySolonskywasamemberofTheFastReacSonGroupinthemid-1990stogetherwithBorisMikhaïlov,SergiyBratkovandVitaMikhaïlov.Since2000heworksatKharkivNa8onalUniversity.

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Soloexhibi8ons2019Oscilla8ons,Come-ingallery,Kharkiv,Ukrain2004Let’shaveadrink!,MaratGuelmangallery,Kyiv,Ukraine.TheFihhElement.TheMet.Express-Kharkiv-Kyiv-ANon-stopTrip”,SoviartCentreforContemporaryArt,Kyiv,Ukraine2003AtelierKarasgallery,Kyiv,Ukraine1996Raphael,aspartofFastReac8onGroup,Up/Downgallery,Kharkiv,UkraineAllmyWiveswereVirgins,Up/DownGallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine.1995IfIWereaGerman,asapartofFastReac8onGroup,MaratGuelmangallery,Moscow,RussiaOscillaSons,Brozabrikgallery,Berlin,Germany1994SpiingonMoscow,asapartofFastReac8onGroup,Up/Downgallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine1992BodyArt,Up/Downgallery,Kharkiv,UkraineGroupexhibi8ons(selec8on)2019Crossinglines,PinchukArtCentre,Kyiv,Ukraine,curators:BjörnGeldhof,Mar8nKiefer,AliciaKnockKharkivschoolofphotographyfromGrynovs’familycollecSon,MironovaFounda8ongallery,Kyiv,Ukraine2018ÉcolephotographiquedeKharkiv,KhersonMuseumofModernArt,Kherson,Ukraine2017Kharkiv.18+,asapartofOdessa/BatumiPhotoDays2017fes8val,OdesaMuseumofModernArt,Odesa,Ukraine,curator:SergiyLebedynskyy2016ResearchPlalorm:Guilt,PinchukArtCentre,Kyiv,Ukraine.2014OccupiedbyArt,YermilovCentre,Kharkiv,Urkaine2013ActofDisobedience.BodyasaProtestinKharkivPhotographyof1970s-2010s,LumierebrothersCenterforPhotography,Moscow,Russia

2012ArSstforFairElecSons,togetherwithSergiyBratkov,Paperworksgallery,VinzavodContemporaryArtCenter,Moscow,Russia2010Ukrainianphotography1989-2009,Bra8slavaMonthofPhotography,Bra8slava,Slovakia2004FotograficyzCharkowa,CitygalleryArsenal,Poznan,Poland.2002Thelifethatissimilartosong,CulturalHeroesInterna8onalFes8val,Ragallery,Plast-Artgallery,Kyiv,Chernihiv,Ukraine2000ArSstBooks/PhotoswithText,PublicLibraryofCincinna8andHamiltonCounty,Cincinna8,Ohio,USA1999СarteblancheàBorisMikhailov,CitéInterna8onaledesArts,Paris,France1999-2000FutureisNowUkrainianArtintheNineSes,MuseumofContemporaryArt,Škucgallery,Ljubljana,Slovenia,CityGalleryCollegiumar8s8cum,Sarajevo,BosniaandHerzogovina1995Grudges,togetherwithSergiyBratkovandIgorChursin,Up/Downgallery,Kharkiv,UkraineMulSpleExposures:UkrainianPhotographyToday,RutgersArtCenter,ZimmerlyMuseum,NewJersey,USAElecSons,withSergiyBratkov,Up/Downgallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine.KharkivPhotography,MuseumofIndustrialCulture,Nürnberg,Germany1994Neophotoexpressionism,withBorisMikhailovandSergiyBratkov,KharkivFineArtMuseum,Kharkiv,UkrainePhotoneoexpressionism,withBorisMikhailovandSergiyBratkov,Up/Downgallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine1987Venus,KrakowPhotographicSociety,Krakow,PolandF-87,PalaceofStudentsofKharkivPolytechnicIns8tute,Kharkiv,USSR1986PalaceofCultureofBuilders,Kharkiv,USSR

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SergiySolonsky,Un8tled,fromseriesBesSary,ca.1995,gela8nsilverprint,photomontage,40x30cm,edi8onof10

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SergiySolonsky,Un8tled,ca.1995,gela8nsilverprint,50x40cm,edi8onof10

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SergiySolonsky,Un8tled,ca.1995,gela8nsilverprint,50x40cm,edi8onof10

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RomanPyatkovka(1955,Kharkiv,Ukraine)In 1972-1977 Roman Pyatkovka studied in Kharkiv Polytechnic Ins8tute. In 1978-1981 he aPended the courses ofIns8tute of Theatrical Art. For five years (1979–1984) he has beenworking as a Chief ligh8ng designer of the YoungSpectator’s Theater in Kharkiv. That background defined certain theatricality of his future ar8s8c prac8ce. He gotinterestedinphotographyintheearly1980s.Inthisperiodhewasverymuchinfluencedbysuchphotographersoftheoldergenera8onoftheKarkhivSchoolofPhotographyasBorisMikhaïlovandOlegMaliovany.

Pyatkovkaappliesinhisprac8ceawholerangeofstrategiestypicalforKharkivSchoolofPhotography,thoselikeoverlays,theappropria8onofanonymousarchives,thecombina8onofimagesandtexts.Themaintopicsofhisbodyofworkaresexualityandfemalenudity.Obenperforma8ve,thescenesfromRomanPyatkovka’sprojectsarelocatedinthespacesofcommunalapartments,triggeringthediscussionaboutprivateandpublic,sensualandtabooed inthesocietyofSovietandPost-Sovietperiods.

RomanPyatkovkabecamethewinneroftheSonyWorldPhotographyAwardsintheConceptualcategoryforhisSovietPhoto series (2013). He works as a senior lecturer at the Department ofMedia Communica8ons of Kharkiv Na8onalUniversity.

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Soloexhibi8ons2016SovietPhotoII,DadianiFineArt,London,GreatBritain2015SovietPhoto,DadianiFineArt,London,GreatBritain2010WrongPhotography,Exitgallery,Odesa,Ukraine2008NewGamegallery,Tokio,Japan1991KenDamyMuseumofcontemporaryphotography,Bresica,Italy1993Innensichtgallery,Nürnberg,Germany1995HouseofAr8st,Kharkiv,Ukraine1991FotografierGallery,Göteborg,Sweden1999KunstvereinNürnbergKohlenhof,Nürnberg,Germany1991RoyBoydgallery,Chicago,Illinois,USA1991UngeKunstneresSamfundGalleri,Oslo,NorwayGroupexhibi8ons(selec8on)2019Crossinglines,PinchukArtCentre,Kyiv,Ukraine,curators:BjörnGeldhof,Mar8nKiefer,AliciaKnock2019PaleneofPain,asapartofTbilisiArtFair2019,ExpoGeorgia,Tbilisi,Georgia2019UPHAMadeinUkraine,AKTartspace,Kyiv,Ukraine2019KharkivschoolofphotographyfromGrynovs’familycollecSon,MironovaFounda8ongallery,Kyiv,Ukraine2017CityofKhA.Avant-gardeKharkiv:ResearchProject,Na8onalArtMuseum,Kyiv,UkraineResearchPlalorm:AnonymousSociety,PinchukArtCentre,Kyiv,UkraineUkrainianArchetype,asapartofPhotoKyiv2017,Toronto-Kyiv,Kyiv,Ukraine2016ATakeonVintagePhotography,VitasLuckusPhotographyCentre,Šiauliai,Lithuania2016TheFreedomofthePast,HungarianHouseofPhotographyMaiManoHouse,Budapest,Hungary

2014PremoniSon:UkrainianArtNow,Saatchigallery,London,GreatBritain2014ProbabilityTheory,asapartoftheVIIAllUkrainianPlazorm“NewDirec8ons”,ModernArtResearchIns8tuteofUkrainianAcademyofArts,Kyiv,Ukraine2013ActofDisobedience.BodyasaProtestinKharkivPhotographyof1970s-2010s,LumierebrothersCenterforPhotography,Moscow,RussiaNordArt2013,Büdelsdorf,GermanySonyWorldPhotographyAwards2013show,SomersetHouse,London,GreatBritain2012SocialEuphory,asapartoftheVAllUkrainianPlazorm“NewDirec8ons”,ModernArtResearchIns8tuteofUkrainianAcademyofArts,Kyiv,UkraineARTisARTisART,MoscowMuseumofModernArt,Moscow,Russia.201111thEuropeanfes8valofnudephotographyRegardssurlecorps,L’espaceVanGogh,Arles,FranceTheDrawinglessons:UkrainianPhotography,asapartofInterna8onalPhotographyFes8valPIP,Pingyao,China2010If,MuseumofContemporaryArtPERMM,Perm,Russia.1998LesRencontresd’Arles,Arles,France1995ContemporaryRussianPhotography–BorisSavelev,LyaiyaKuznetsova,RomanPyatkovka,FranciscoInfante,TanjaLiebermann,AndreiBezoukiadnikov,YuriTschernischovandVadimGippenreiter,TampaMuseumofArt,Florida,USA1991Photomanifesto:contemporaryphotographyintheUSSR,Bal8moreMuseumofArt,Bal8more,USA1990Op-posiSons:CommitmentandCulturalIdenStyinContemporaryPhotography,asapartofIIInterna8onalBiennaleofPhotography,Centerforphotography,RoPerdam,Netherlands1989Fotostroika,NewYork,USA1988NewSovietPhotography,atouringshow,Finland,Sweden,Denmark1987F-87,PalaceofStudentsofKharkivPolytechnicIns8tute,Kharkiv,USSR.

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RomanPyatkovka,Un8tled,fromseriesWithchessabbath,1988,gela8nsilverprint,30x40cm,edi8onof7+2a.p.

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RomanPyatkovka,Un8tled,fromseriesWithchessabbath,1988,gela8nsilverprint,30x40cm,edi8onof7+2a.p.

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RomanPyatkovka,Un8tled,fromseriesWithchessabbath,1988,gela8nsilverprint,30x40cm,edi8onof7+2a.p.

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VladyslavKrasnoshchok(1980,Kharkiv,Ukraine)VladyslavKrasnoshchokstudied inKharkivMedicalUniversity in1997-2002.Hehasbeenac8velyprac8cingphotographysince2008.Hewasapar8cipantoftheShilogroupsince2010(togetherwithSergiyLebedynskyy,VadymTrykozandOleksiySobolev).Thear8sthasarecognisablestyleofmonochromedocumentaryshots:theyareaesthe8callytransformedusingdifferenttechnicalmanipula8ons.Thosemanipula8onsresultintheanachronis8ceffectofvaguegrainedsurfaceandforma"screen"thatamplifiestheexperienceofcontemporaneity.Theauthorisinterestedinshowingtheharshnessofdailylife,choosingtheinsider’sposi8on,asintheBolnichkaseriesofshotstakenatKharkivstateclinicalhospitalofemergencyaid,whereVladyslavworked for 10 years. In his projects, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok also uses hand-colouring, including8n8nganonymous archives of vintage photographs found on Kharkiv flea market. Both methods of appropria8on and hand-colouring evolved in Kharkiv photography in the late 1970s, demonstra8ng the con8nuity of tradi8ons in the localcommunity.Broadeningthefieldsofphotography,theauthorcombineshisshotswithsculpturalobjects,andexperimentswithgraphicart,engravingandstreetart.

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Soloexhibi8ons2019Homeland,Come-ingallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine2018HowIGaveUpwithArt,AzaNiziMazaartcentre,Kharkiv,Ukraine2017BeforeMyBirth,Vovatanyagallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine.2016Ukraine—MemoryunderRevision,AlmaLövmuseum,ÖstraÄmterviks,Sweden2015HealingMuds,SpectrumGalleryatLumierePhoto,Rochester,USAChronicle,BildBandBerlin,Berlin,Germany.DiscoveryAward,asapartofLesRencontresd’Arlesfes8val,Arles,France-Euromaidan,KaunasPhoto,Kaunas,LithuaniaEuromaidan,Na8onalMuseumofArt,Riga,LatviaHealingMuds,Odessa/BatumiPhotoDays,Batumi,Georgia2014FinishedDissertaSon,AsymetriaGaleria,Warsaw,Poland.UPAhändehoch,KharkivMunicipalArtGallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine2013Tvorcheskiyvecher,Vovatanyagallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine2014FinishedDissertaSon,FotoLobgallery,Moscow,RussiaTimoshenko’sEscapeorthefirststeptotheexhibiSononMars,asapartofFotoFest’sBiennial2013,Houston,USAWellnessFaciliSes,OpenGallery,Moscow,Russia.HrushevskohoStreet/Euromaidan,OpenGallery,Moscow,Russia5х5photoclub,Lviv,Ukraine2011StoringnegaSves,Kharkivmunicipalartgallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine.2010Conserves,Kharkivmunicipalartgallery,Kharkiv,Ukraine

Groupexhibi8ons(selec8on)2019Aeneas’sWay,asapartofDanteFest2019,YermilovCentre,Kharkiv,Ukraine2016ATakeonVintagePhotography,VitasLuckusPhotographyCentre,Šiauliai,LithuaniaNuitdelaPhoto,LaChaux-de-Fonds,SwitzerlandDeformaSon,asapartofSuwonPhotoFes8val,Suwon,SouthernKorea

Euromaidan:AttheBreakofDawn,AddisFotoFest,AddisAbaba,Ethiopia2015LoveandWarinUkraine,Panop8konFotografinshus,Stockholm,SwedenYoungPorlolioExhibiSon,KiyosatoMuseumofPhotographicArts,Hokuto,Yamanashi,Japan2014AnOceanofPossibiliSes,NoorderlichtPhotofes8val,Leeuwarden,NetherlandsHandmadeII,AnzenbergerGallery,Vienna,AustriaI’madropintheocean,Künstlerhaus,Vienna,AustriaUkraine—Thefreelancers’War,asapartoftheFes8valofEthicalPhotography,Lodi,Italy2013ActofDisobedience.BodyasaProtestinKharkivPhotographyof1970s-2010s,LumierebrothersCenterforPhotography,Moscow,RussiaInternaSonalDiscoveriesIV,asapartofFotoFest2013Biennial,Houston,USA2012KharkivSchoolofPhotography.TheDrawinglessons:UkrainianPhotography1890-2010,asapartoftheFirstKyivBiennialofContemporaryArt,Kyiv,Ukraine2012ContemporaryRussianPhotography.TheyounggeneraSon2007-2012,asapartofFotoFest2012Biennial,Houston,USACelestePrize2012,MuseiCapitoliniCentraleMontemar8ni,finalists’show,Rome,ItalyStopallo048deglioggei,LeCiminiereartcentre,Catania,ItalyArSculaSon,asapartoftheІІІInterna8onalMoscowBiennialofYouthArt,VinzavodContemporaryArtCenter,Moscow,Russia2011Interna8onalPorzolioReview,Moscow,RussiaSHILOandfriends.PhotographsfromEast,asapartofEastEuropeanCinemaFes8val,Haus23gallery,CoPbus,GermanyTheDrawinglessons:UkrainianPhotography,asapartofInterna8onalPhotographyFes8valPIP,Pingyao,China

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