PHOTO presents Immersive Identity, an exhibition of a collaborative project by Yuri Boyko and Valeria Troubina.
Their large, nude, figure-based photographs pose a challenging question, which Yuri Boyko addresses in his statement:
What is the relationship of each entity to itself? Immersive Identity addresses human self-conception in a sociological context. It explores radical change over time as well as ever present humanity. Human identity transcends national, cultural, physiological, sexual, or virtual signs—all the while immersed in them.
Working with archetypical structures and approaches in photographic media and using studio controlled environment we have observed and followed a development of a signifying persona-image. This stage-by-stage evolution of the image was natural for the model. She was not given set instructions, but rather suggestions of a psychological state of mind.
The series has two sections: “Figures” and “Portraits”. The former represents the evolving human socio type over history, and the latter reflects the personal presence and an affirmation of the omnipresent magic state of being.
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Biographies:
Yuri Boyko resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He took up photography in early childhood with a simple Lomo camera and was persistent enough to convince the family to set up portable dark room in family’s bathroom, the only space in the house where there were no windows. Yuri attended British Higher School of Art and Design, Department of Photography, where his graduation work of seven large-scale B&W diptychs presented constructivism treatment of a national landmark. His work has been shown in the US, Ukraine, and Russia. Yuri’s current interests are in abstracting, relaying, and communicating signifying attributes of subject matter.
Valeria Troubina studied at the Kiev State Academy of Art in Ukraine. She became known as an activist and participated in the controversial group of Transavantgarde artists called "Praizhskaya Communa". The group achieved recognition both locally and internationally with exhibitions throughout Europe. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Troubina exhibited at 369 Gallery in Scotland. In 1994, she moved to the US and exhibited in Illinois, California and Hawaii. Recently, Valeria relocated back to her native Ukraine. She will unfortunately be unable to attend any of the gallery events related to this exhibition.
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