TRANSFORMATIONViktor Senkov unites conceptual photography, video art and music in one space to reveal the idea of image transformation in the context of new media, enhancing their impact and transforming the viewer's mind. The images were taken directly from the screen while the video was playing. The transformation of a streaming video with adult content was made only by changing camera angles while taking photos, using different depth of field, color errors and tracking distortions on the monitor. The Transformation project disproves the authenticity of the nature of photography. Experimenting with techniques and media, the author discovers the unique pictorial nature of the image, which exists on the edge between the concrete and authentic representation of reality and the non-figurative visual. The image balances between the abstract and the material. Pulsating shapes, smooth lines, color spots, and gradients create the illusion of movement, supported by the speculative dynamics of the original material.The project includes photography, “Transformation Manifesto” and video art.
TRANSFORMATION MANIFESTO“The artist takes an object and transforms it into art.The artist can take anything or anybody and transform them into art.The artist can completely change the spectator’s view on events and facts.The artist easily transforms the beauty and the ugliness of humans and their actions into something opposite.The artist changes the form, appearance, and nature of characters to create something different.The artist perceives reality as an endless flow of frames and transforms it, so nothing reminds the spectator about the action on the screen.Even the artist can forget the initial source.The artist expresses the idea of transformation.”