Artist
Sergey Melnitchenko
Sergey Melnitchenko was born in 1991 in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. Started photography in 2009. In 2018 – founder of school of conceptual and art photography MYPH. Member of UPHA – Ukrainian Photo Alternative. In recent years, he has participated in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions around the world. Winner of Ukrainian and international contests including “Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer” in 2017 (Berlin), “Photographer of the Year” in 2012, 2013 and 2016 (Kyiv, Ukraine), “Golden Camera” in 2012 (Kyiv, Ukraine). Shortlisted for Krakow Photomonth in 2013 and Pinchuk Art Center Prize in 2015, among others. Participant of “Paris Photo”, “Volta Art Fair”, “Photo L.A.”, Photo Basel, etc. Nominated on “Foam Paul Huf Award” in 2020. Sergey’s works are in private and public collections in USA, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, France, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania and Czech Republic.
Fundamental Space Explorations of naked singularity
"Fundamental space explorations of naked singularity" is a set of questions that a person asks in the moments of searching for himself and his personality in the universe. Naked singularity is a singularity that is not surrounded by an event horizon. In philosophy, singularity is identical with the uniqueness and uniqueness of the phenomenon, and in fact the personality.
The man is unique, there are no same ones. At the scale of the universe, we are alone and trying to find ourselves anywhere and at any cost, often being aliens on our own planet.
The event horizon, in turn, is a place in space-time that has no time course in the perception of the observer. In his search, the person is in the event horizon – until the other person comes in contact with him, it is impossible to see the scale of his internal search.
Through analogy with cosmic motives and fake documentation, we show what is happening beyond the event horizon in which each of us is located.
Project consists of 3 parts: photography, 3d animation and drawings.
The selection of artists - comprising Kristina Õllek, Kristīne Krauze-Slucka, Sergey Melnitchenko, Vika Eksta and Konstantin Zhukov - encompasses diverse approaches to the medium of photography in terms of form and technique. Their practice ranges from documentary to camera-less photography, though they share a passion for exploring relevant social themes; the selected projects mirror the social, economical and ecological phenomena to which we are all subjected today. We firmly believe that these artists will contribute to the artistic community of FUTURES with the rich diversity of their approaches.