Aleksei Martyniuk
O. D. C.
3:33 (looped)
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A short ride down the street or a long trip to the distant places can be a daily routine moment or it may turn out to be a lifelong journey. So, dive and experience this odyssey where time is displaced and always dreaming cities meet off-dictionary scenes.
Aleksei Martyniuk
MÖBIOTROPE 二
1:52 (looped)
Unlike well-known home places, where you have to "look closely" to discover something new and hidden, visiting other cities, and even more so countries, is usually associated with visual and information overload. A few years later, having found myself in China again, but in a completely different region and in a different role, a situation arose where the environment still seemed familiar, but it was rich in new details. The search for patterns and images led to the creation of this ensemble.
This video artwork continues previous experiments with the persistence started in «MÖBIOTROPE» (2022), but expands it with new elements and changing the overall structure of the work.
Part of the 4-chapter «ADAPTASIAN» project. The second work in the series dedicated to Nanning, China.
Aleksei Martyniuk
MÖBIOTROPE 셋
1:33 (looped)
Here, in a place where following traditions and attachment to roots coexist with the longing for Western values and form a multicultural integration of East and West. In a place where the frantic flows of people and events appear not as chaos, but as a well-organized organism, each element of which tries to breathe in sync with you. In a place where I have been many times, where I first became acquainted with a modern art and was first noticed on the art stage. Here a kaleidoscope of impressions was collected, comprehended and presented in a form that I invite you to get along with me.
The main visual technique of this videoart series continues to be the persistence of human vision, where each change of scenery leaves its mark – it has an impact on the overall tone, duration and structure. Thus, the work with images, begun in «MÖBIOTROPE» (2022) and «MÖBIOTROPE 二» (2025), retains a certain heredity, but with each new attempt explores it from different angles, adding new qualities and thus complementing the overall picture.
Part of the 4-chapter «ADAPTASIAN» project. The third work in the series dedicated to Seoul, South Korea.
Aleksei Martyniuk
MÖBIOTROPE
1:27 (looped)
Every day we follow the same routes and rarely pay attention to the world around us. Days merge into a series of blurry photos taken from the window of a public transport. It starts to seem that nothing can attract our attention, but it turns out that even well-known places can surprise us if you put a little effort.
Human vision has one feature of visual perception - inertia or persistence, which transforms series of images into a complete single picture. The thaumatrope children's toy which also uses this optical characteristic, has become a tool for reimagining the visual patterns of the urban environment. It made it possible to look at familiar objects from different sides at the same time. The sequence of these images eventually forms a loop in which, like the Möbius strip, the concept of the «other» side is absent per se.
Part of the 4-chapter art-project «ADAPTASIAN». The first work in the series dedicated to Vladivostok, Russia.
Aleksei Martyniuk is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and university lecturer. In his artistic practice he often works with the theme of cyclicity and its possible forms. His video artworks do not represent some subjective experience, but rather create conditions for its occurrence for the viewer. They are aimed to expand the viewing experience and create new perceptive situations in which familiar elements of the surrounded world are placed in new contexts.
The artist uses a wide range of modern digital technologies and techniques, but he doesn’t put them on a spotlight – they are only supporting elements for the implementation of ideas. Even those artworks of Aleksei that involve 3D or AI are frame by frame edited and refined, so, despite their computer-generated nature, they remain to be «hand crafted».
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