Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 2
© Kirill Golovchenko
Kirill Golovchenko
Kirill Golovchenko (b.1974 in Odessa, Ukraine) studied Foreign Languages before studying Photography and Design at Darmstadt University. Kirill lives in Germany, but most of his artistic projects are photographed in Ukraine. Kirill Golovchenko’s published a number of photobooks, including ’7km - Field of Wonders’, Snoeck, 2009; ‘Totalniy Futbol’, Suhrkamp, 2012 and ‘Kachalka’, Kehrer Verlag, 2012.
KOTLOVAN (The Foundation Pit) project was made in 2013 – 2014 and titled after the novel by Andrei Platonov, a Soviet writer critical to the revolutionary changes forced by the communist regime. Golovchenko’s work is also critical: “When I‘m in Ukraine, I see a chaos in society, politics, and lastly in the human souls. Many areas of public life reflect this. Public areas are littered with kiosks, shops and advertising. All shelves in stores are overfilled. Every free space is used. The concept and ideology of the current post-socialist society in Ukraine is money.”
This critical angle, as well as the dense visual representation, relate the KOTLOVAN project to Kharkiv School’s social reportage, especially to Mikhailov’s 2000-2010 Tea, Coffee, Cappuccino.
View Portfolio: Kotlovan (The Foundation Pit)
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