Saturn and Jupiter
Photographs of the ceilings of abandoned metropolitan buildings. They are covered in constellations of soot from burning matches thrown by teenagers as a symbol of their lost beautiful heritage. Matches cast in brass are installed in the picture imitating the traces of a backyard ritual known to many from their (Soviet time) childhood. The soot is imitated with black ink and charcoal, and the drops of acrylic paint are reminiscent of the starry sky.
Dmitry Sirotkin (born 1969 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian artist-photographer and book designer, an employee of the editorial and publishing department of the State Hermitage. During a personal exhibition of the artist's photographs at the Hermitage, art critic Arkady Ippolitov named him one of the key authors of modern Petersburg photography, along with Boris Smelov.
In recent projects, he demonstrates a gravitation towards large topics (growing up, human goal-setting, the continuity of generations and cultures). In addition to photography, he uses video, painting and objects as means of expression. The artist is attracted by the possibilities of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, blockchain - technologies that he gradually begins to use in his works, complicating them and partially moving them into the online space.
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