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Petro Chekal
Artist from Ukraine
Petro Chekal
Photographer, Cultural Theorist, Musician
I was born in Kharkiv in 2001 and began engaging with photography in 2013 when I was around 12 years old. I have about 10 years of creative experience. Over the past two to three years, my achievements have gained momentum: I have participated in musical concerts and exhibitions—both collective and solo—around the world. Currently, I have exhibitions in Palermo and Lille. My work has been published in photo albums and magazines. While studying at Kharkiv University of Karazin, I worked as a curator for exhibi- tions.
My first publication in a prestigious international journal occurred in 2022 in New York Magazine. My first solo exhibition took place in 2022 with the project "In Search of Home," a story about the evacuation of my family during the shelling in Kharkiv, held at Dzyga in Lviv. Additionally, in 2022, I participated in a landmark exhibition at the National Center "Ukrainian House" with the project "Flash. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography," which featured leading contemporary Ukrainian photographers. I am a graduate and partic- ipant of modern photography schools Chekachkov Academy and MYPH with Serhiy Melnitchenko.

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Petro Chekal
Artist from Ukraine
Petro Chekal
Photographer, Cultural Theorist, Musician
I was born in Kharkiv in 2001 and began engaging with photography in 2013 when I was around 12 years old. I have about 10 years of creative experience. Over the past two to three years, my achievements have gained momentum: I have participated in musical concerts and exhibitions—both collective and solo—around the world. Currently, I have exhibitions in Palermo and Lille. My work has been published in photo albums and magazines. While studying at Kharkiv University of Karazin, I worked as a curator for exhibi- tions.
My first publication in a prestigious international journal occurred in 2022 in New York Magazine. My first solo exhibition took place in 2022 with the project "In Search of Home," a story about the evacuation of my family during the shelling in Kharkiv, held at Dzyga in Lviv. Additionally, in 2022, I participated in a landmark exhibition at the National Center "Ukrainian House" with the project "Flash. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography," which featured leading contemporary Ukrainian photographers. I am a graduate and partic- ipant of modern photography schools Chekachkov Academy and MYPH with Serhiy Melnitchenko.

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"Fixed Solubility"
Photography by Petro Chekal
45 x 47 cm • Photography, Photo, Photo paper
During the full-scale invasion, which has been going on for over two years, there is a constant struggle for borders. In a places, where people once dissolved in love, thoughts, and dreams - now there are only blurred trenches and people in them.
War is a struggle for the clarity of borders. But not only the landscapes ones (hence the first part of the project's name - Belligerro from lat. Belligerro - "to wage war"), but also within each of us. And it is within our power to track how the borders change somewhere within, in ourselfs.
However, because very often we cannot hear and immediately see the change, we find ourselves in uncertainty.
The experience of photographic and artistic practices allows both the viewer and the operator themselves (see Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida") to create a situation where "Solubility" is one of the key components of the artwork. The instrument, - in this project, it is the camera, - demonstrates the principle of diffusion, which allows the viewer to open up an space without words, ’Aλήθεια (Gr. "truth"). Understanding what we dissolve into is impossible, but I at least tried to approach the very solubility, to try to see and show its borders. (from that the second name of the project - Fixed Solubility).selves in uncertainty.
War - it is when space is forced to move. Especially our space-self and the space of what we
About the artist
Petro Chekal
Artist from Ukraine
Petro Chekal
Photographer, Cultural Theorist, Musician
I was born in Kharkiv in 2001 and began engaging with photography in 2013 when I was around 12 years old. I have about 10 years of creative experience. Over the past two to three years, my achievements have gained momentum: I have participated in musical concerts and exhibitions—both collective and solo—around the world. Currently, I have exhibitions in Palermo and Lille. My work has been published in photo albums and magazines. While studying at Kharkiv University of Karazin, I worked as a curator for exhibi- tions.
My first publication in a prestigious international journal occurred in 2022 in New York Magazine. My first solo exhibition took place in 2022 with the project "In Search of Home," a story about the evacuation of my family during the shelling in Kharkiv, held at Dzyga in Lviv. Additionally, in 2022, I participated in a landmark exhibition at the National Center "Ukrainian House" with the project "Flash. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography," which featured leading contemporary Ukrainian photographers. I am a graduate and partic- ipant of modern photography schools Chekachkov Academy and MYPH with Serhiy Melnitchenko.

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