My work grows out of presence and attention. It focuses on moments that exist only briefly – gestures, glances, and constellations that cannot be repeated in the same way. What appears in the work is found rather than planned, shaped by proximity, timing, and contingency.

In Ukraine, this approach leads to photographs and video works made in environments marked by damage, fatigue, and adaptation, where everyday life continues under altered conditions. Human presence and its absence carry equal weight: faces and bodies alongside rooms, streets, and buildings bearing traces of recent lives.

The images remain open in their meaning. They do not seek to explain situations or resolve them into narratives, but hold them in a provisional state. Video introduces duration and silence, allowing moments to unfold without direction.

I work with analogue and digital processes, accepting materiality and imperfection as part of the image. Rather than aiming for permanence, the work acknowledges its own temporality – shaped by a specific moment, a specific place, and a brief convergence of circumstances. At its core, it is driven by an interest in how meaning emerges under conditions of uncertainty, and how presence itself becomes a fragile, existential fact.