Performance And Self-portrayal -- a dialog and publication

  As a Ukrainian-British multidisciplinary artist, designer, and photographer, I am keenly interested in art therapy, somatic and transdisciplinary approaches, and neuroaesthetics. I am delighted to submit my work for consideration, as exploring the intersection of performance to the camera and photographic self-portraiture is close to my heart. Throughout my 25 years of artistic practice, I have used photographs of my body and hand gestures as photo references and participated in performances to communicate my inner feelings and reflect on the topic. I had been involved in Contact improvisation and Five Rhythms groups and workshops and ran authentic movement classes. These experiences let me explore the link between body awareness and psychological experiences and explore the human condition, liminality, identity and perception. After experiencing traumatic events, this exploration became even more relevant to me as it led to physical symptoms. During the war in my homeland, Ukrai...

This project is an experiment of different paper mediums and photography turned into motion, thepaper may vary from, archival, silk, fabric and other printing mediums. The reason for this experiment is to reinterpret and relive my experience through printing, collaging and photography. This body of work is communicating my spiritual excursion or communications with my father’s ancestors, this publication functions as a blueprint for me as I am trying to navigate my spiritual lineage though ceremonies that are performed in my father’s side, this serves as a performance that can be relived in a book, this publication functions as verbal, motion and printed messages that can co-exist with our reality. My work explores the fantasies we hold dearly in our hearts and mind, they exist in the intangible world, we cannot express them physically however we can briefly experience them. These are type of fantasies we cannot touch them, maybe we can try to cherish them, they keep us on our toe, th...

  This image is from a series entitled SPACE MAPS in which I explored the idea of mapping the space we occupy and what happens when we change that by moving. It was taken while holding the camera and making a movement, in this case a sidestep. It was made in a room with mirrored walls, so show the self, reflected whilst moving, together with the surroundings visible to the camera. The series explores our relationship to the world around us, and how that changes each time we make even a simple movement. We take a step forward or turn around and our connection to the space we occupy alters drastically. These long exposures record what happens around us during those basic movements, and show the surroundings from a multiplicity of angles, the resulting sensory overload producing abstract images.

I did a performance during lockdown, and that is about humanbehavoir during that period, it was dark everybody wearing masks, and i just make a portret of a surrealistical personality who is eating a bread....im the oneWho is looking with my nude....... Dressed and undressed, eating and watching....... Human behavior

I am a London based photographer, artist and storyteller of Scotish - Iranian parentage. I explore transformation, through intuative self portraiture and embodied performance. I work with with notions of identity using environments which reflect my phycological, physical or emotional landscape. Using photo montage, moving image and performance in my self portrait process, which began in 1998. As a photographer and burns survivor, my self portrait process boosts my welbeing emotionally and physically. This liberating spiritual process enables me to embody and interpret potent feelings and themes I feel trapped, which I cannot seem to be express through words. Through the repetion (and recordings) of often slight, slow, intuitive movements, I begin to experince another relationship to my self and stories. The process enables me to tune in to my feelings and make contact with layers of trauma within my body. In 2017 I began a dance based embodied movement practice. This practice enabled m...

I am an artist/Photographer. I would be interested in sharing my work as I work in light painting photography. The artwork I'm sharing is a self portrait and part of my ongoing series "The Air We Breath" Light painting or light drawing ,as I use it, using light as 'paint' and the camera as a canvas with the intent to create a work of art or create an image that 'normally' wouldn't exist. Or in the case of this series, making the invisible 'Air' visible. The work is titled "Being devoured by the Abyss" where instead of showing what we normally see in the real world, I've taken the opposite and made the energy or air surrounding us visible thus show the 'dark matter' in the world and emphasising the way we can be enveloped by our surroundings, and hopefully drawing a connections to the importance of our surroundings even to the thing we cannot see, ie Air.