The exhibition is open between 2pm and 7 pm.
SERGEY MELNITCHENKO
Sergey was born in 1991 in Mykolaiev, Ukraine. He took up photography in 2009 and in less than 10 years took part in over 50 group and 10 individual shows across the world, including Italy, Sweden, Chile, Slovakia, Ukraine, Argentina, France, Brazil, Moldova, Israel, Germany, USA, Czech Republic , Portugal, Poland, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Russia. He is a winner of Ukrainian and international photography competitions, including Photographer of the Year Award (2012, 2013 and 2016; Kiev, Ukraine), Golden Camera Award (2012 Kiev, Ukraine), one of the finalists of the Showoff section during the month of photography in Krakow 2013, winner of Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2017. His works were also show at Paris Photo 2017. He was nominated for Pinczuk Art Center Prize 2015. In his artistic practice, Melnitchenko primarily photographs male nude acts, breaks social taboos and explores the possibilities of being oneself.
POLAROIDS FROM CHINA
"What I see. What I like. What is around."
China/Hong Kong
Melnitchenko lived and worked in Hong Kong and Beijing for several years. His unique photo series Polaroids from China was captured during his stay there.
LONELINESS ONLINE
At some point, while video chatting with my friends, I was surprised by an interesting hobby of some young and not so young people from different countries to show their genitals on camera, often it in a most unusual way. I began to devote more time to these chats, especially trying to find such people. I waited to come across for such a companion and then "photographed" him by pressing "Prt Sc". All the time I spent video chatting, I got about 200-300 of such people, out of whom I selected the most interesting ones, in my opinion. This is how the left side of the photographs was created. On the right I put trees. The photographs were taken with a mobile phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera, a monitor and "Google". I juxtaposed the left side with the photographs of the trees because they are, I think, the most representative of loneliness.
Sergey Melnitchenko