"I care about personal connection, but only the one where each of us pays attention to each other. I don't work with galleries. I express myself through my works but happy to have a conversation with you. We are too lonely, too atomised. I am deeply inspired by David Hopper and Vermeer as well as Hieronymus Bosch. The colours, the light and the human condition in-between." Igor Selemenev (b. 1972, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores themes of existence and transition. "My works are not about escaping into emptiness, but about crossing it," he explains, emphasizing the depth of his artistic intent. Selemenev primarily works with monochrome, figurative lithography, referring to himself as a "labourer" in the creative process. He favours offset ink and has experimented with different mediums, including scanning and enlarging his works into pixelated forms on felt cardboard, and craft paper for exhibitions. In addition to printmaking, Selemenev also works with ceramics. He finds deep inspiration in the works of Vermeer and Hieronymus Bosch. “I care about personal connection, but only the one where each of us pays attention to each other. We are too atomised. The colours, the light can help to alleviate the human condition”.

Ceramist from Lviv, Ukraine. Member of the International Academy of Ceramics and a regular participant in regional, national and international art exhibitions.

Artist, photographer, graphic. Born in 1997 in Rivne, where she currently lives and works. Studied environmental design at the Kyiv Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts named after M. Boychuk, graduated from NAOMA with a degree in free graphics. In her work, she experiments with both her own and other bodies, mainly female. Her main language of expression is artistic photography. Since 2019, she has been actively working with an alternative photo printing technique — cyanotype. Bohdana also implements projects in collaboration with other artists. Together with Ukrainian artist Artem Lagovskyi, she created the atypical modeling agency VRODA. She participated in exhibitions and residencies in Germany and Italy. In 2023, she received the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. In July 2024, she attended a photography workshop in Nuremberg. In August 2024, Artem Lagovskyi and I created a media project on the YouTube channel and the podcast "NYNI".