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"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I loved to draw as an infant; and I received several awards. After high-school I went on to pursue a degree in economics but was not content with the prospect of having a career that was full-time an uninteresting desk in a dirty office. Therefore, I decided to take at art with a serious approach, which eventually resulted in me enrolling in the class of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making my art is an essential process of creating impossible, imagined realms.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural forms and feelings - that is exactly what I enjoy to imagine and visualize. Of course, in my youth, just like everyone, I started with all the things that surrounded me and then I began to feel dissatisfied with interpreting known visual information.
The desire to make every possible variation and artefact of unknown origin motivated me to create completely new universes."
What is your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my endeavor to develop bio-inspired living organisms and fresh aesthetic for the future of organic life. Bioism is an approach to create art pieces that demonstrate the visual potential of synthetic biology. Bioism attempts to produce art based on the power of life, diversity and. Each of my works as an actual living thing. Bioism gives life to dead objects.
Personally, I think that in the coming years after a biological revolution, we will use living furniture, dwell in living houses, as well as travel through space with living stations. The most fascinating thing will be the ability of artists to work with living materials, and thus create new forms of life. The art form will take on the sense of birth. The fantastical could be the reactions of an art object to its creator and its surroundings. The art museums of the future might transform into zoological gardens and galleries, they could be transformed into diversification funds, and ateliers to biology labs.
Bioism aims to spread different and inexhaustible types of life across the universe. Paradise engineering can be described as an advance in bioethics...
The manifesto I feel, will never be complete, because I'm a biochemical process that is still in the process of completing it."
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What's the secret in making your installation?
"I am trying to avoid all primitive geometric structures: no straight lines, even no lines at all, if possible. I'm chasing the collision of both macro and micro an everyday basis.
Anything that isn't understood, or too complex will be immediately recognized by our inner eye as organic or somehow alive. Biology is the most deep and most intricate information structure of our planet."
A church can be a formal setting. Are you stressed to make within such a area?
"It depends on your personal beliefs, fears, or how uncertain you are in your understanding of your place in the world of humankind. For me, I'm almost none of the knowledge about space, time and their wonders. So when I go to a church, I feel as if I'm a child who's exploring an enormous and bizarre playground that is a part of communication purpose.
I strive to be kind toward it as an artist However, I also don't forget about its entertainment side that is conversing with a god. It is a bit similar to an XXL telephone booth where while talking or trying to hear you can also laugh."
How much are you in charge of the creation process and how much of the creation process involves bioism?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging venture. My inner ear and eye will be listening to the possible unknown tune, to find unknown shapes, that speak to me, and stimulates the imagination of my. But it is not an all-in-one process, where you are an mining machine, collecting lucky gemstones and throwing hell of waste of not interesting possibilities in your face. For me, it's not a good idea.
My fascinations are often combined along with other possibilities minor in order to create not just a pleasant music, but a unexpected revelations too. The most precious part of this work is to compose new world as you are already imagining what the final product should appear. There are times when you dream and other times it happens in the night while 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 get something else out of it? Like meditation or communication with your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Also, I create as I discover myself and see what I can do to be able to surprise myself as well as how my universe could be able to surprise me. This involves every possible activity along this unusual path. Sometimes, it's funny indeed, and sometimes if I'm feeling more exhilarated, I venture to the outside world and make an intervention."
What led you towards bioism? How did you get started? it?
"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 long periods of time and try to sketch motions of nature on the board. Then I made several portraits. However, I became so unhappy, so bored with the dullness of human faces that were reproduced (including photos and video) and I halted. The moment I stopped, the shell of my egg broke and I emerged like an octopus (or Godzilla). Which means that I became closer to the truth of existence. What does that mean? The idea isn't to define the existing one and to create an entirely new version. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
When I was going through your IG I thought Bioism may be interested in homeless issues within LA...
"But it was a contrary narrative: it was cold on the streets and lonely people where happy to receive every human touch, listen to the Christmas story of the new-born bioism, and to play with little blue child of it.
The naked poverty on the beaches of Hollywood might cause by me a totally different approach in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes from Venice."
To view more of his body of work and dive deeper into bioism check out his Instagram as well as the latest installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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