Projects

As a child, I was one of those who tore pages out of their notebooks if a mistake appeared. I couldn’t stand stains, corrections, or uneven lines. My notebooks were always thin — shaped by that longing for a sterile space. A space where everything was under control, where there was no room for randomness, where things could be done “right.”

Synthetarium is the echo of that childhood instinct.
But now it has merged with a contemporary aesthetic, where sterility is no longer just a synonym for cleanliness. It is a space where the flawless surface is not simply the result of purification, but an artificial shell that conceals tension, control, and cold beauty.

It is a kind of sanctuary for artificial forms of life, a place that exists beyond time and natural cycles. There is no smell of soil, no breath of wind — only the gleam of polished surfaces, artificial light, and a silence that resembles vacuum.

Synthetarium is about the desire to tame chaos, to seal it inside a transparent capsule.
And at the same time — about the awareness that even within such a capsule, the tension between the natural and the constructed still persists.

The project explores the vulnerability of both nature and synthetic life forms in the conditions of the modern world, where humanity transforms the environment into a “vast empty house.” Its title symbolizes the merging of the living and the artificial, flora and fauna, nature and technology — coexisting, yet deprived of harmony by anthropogenic impact.

Inspirations
The project draws on the ideas of Gary Snyder:
• Wilderness is not chaos but an ordered, self-regulating system that preserves its inner freedom.
• Human civilization often fails to notice the wild; even when nature remains, we “do not see” it, while ecosystems are being destroyed.
• The gradual merging of the organic and the synthetic shifts our perception of life, pointing to the necessity of ethics and responsibility in coexistence with all that is alive.

Visual and material language
• Chromoanimals: created or depicted beings that symbolize nature, altered through color and texture manipulations to emphasize their vulnerability.
• Synthetic humans and sculptures: embody technological progress and its impact on ecology, reminding us that the contemporary world often replaces the living with the mechanical.
• Compositional field: scenes where flora and fauna interact with technology — imbued with emptiness, estrangement, and the loss of harmony.