Frozen Landscape addresses the subject of homelessness. For this project, the artist photographed locations where vulnerable people often froze to death. He then encased these photographs in water and suspended the resulting ice cubes to melt during the exhibition, empathically evoking the chilling reality of human loss. “One could say, for example, that I want to make a painting out of a photograph. But in fact, I want it to be more like a sculpture that has shape, volume, a

Series of seventeen photographs. The images register movement, instability, and partial visibility, shifting the scene away from clear documentation toward a fragile and transient perception of reality. 1994. Series of 17 photographs. 10 × 15 cm

The images depict modest, improvised structures on the outskirts of the city, recorded as isolated forms within an open landscape, suspended between use and abandonment. . Series of 6 photographs. 60 × 60 cm

The images document a working environment at a port site, where human figures, animal bodies, and industrial structures coexist within a single operational space. 1995. Series of 15 photographs. 18 × 40 cm

Series of forty photographs with occasional handwritten annotations. The installation presents everyday scenes as disconnected yet accumulating fragments. 1995. 40 photographs (occasionally with handwriting) on a wooden shelf. 60 × 50 cm

1995. Series of 8 photographs. 20 × 20 cm

The work refers to the mass psychoses caused by the serial killer Andrey Chikatilo, who operated in the final decade of the Soviet Union. The maniac was eventually captured in 1990 and executed four years later. Examining various rumours, fears, and mythologies, the artist created a schoolboy’s diary, imagining a boy who could potentially become a maniac. (Chikatilo was born and spent his childhood in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.) 1995. A school notebook with a 17-page spre

Gosprom (House of State Industry), one of the first Soviet skyscrapers, built in 1925–1928 on Kharkiv’s largest square — Dzerzhinsky Square (since 1996, Freedom Square). 1996. Series of 6 photographs. 140 × 100 cm

Princesses touch upon post-Soviet mentality and women's rights issues. Four portraits of young females were made at the Kharkiv Center for Reproductive Medicine. The women in pictures have their tights lowered and hold semen sample containers in their laps, apparently, awaiting A Prince Charming. The names of real-life European royalty heirs are written on the containers. 1996. Alina, Larun, Lyudmila, Marusya. Gelatin silver print. 140 × 110 cm