Galateya

 

Time: 2002


There is no more excited and enigmatical idea than idea of birth of live from the unlived. Idea of transformation, metaphor… 

The project, plot of which goes back to the ancient Greek myth of Gallateya and Pygmalion, consists of 8 photos. They are representing miraculous process of transfiguration of lifeless sculpture into the live body. The chief moment here is to catch the invisible border which the process of transformation is happening in. Generally, we see and comprehend what has been before transformation and what came into being afterwards. But we can almost never catch the slipping point of changing of inner quality of any object (body, thing…), because these point "is" in Nothing…