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The creative duo
EVSUVDO
(Chelyabinsk)
Photography
February 27 - March 15, 2012

EvsuVdo

The creative duo "EvsuVdo" was formed by young photographers on July 8, 2009.
Toma Evsyukova (b. 1991)
A student of South Ural State University (Faculty of Architecture, Department of Design and Fine Arts)
Sasha Vdovkin (b. 1991)
A student of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University (Faculty of Foreign Languages), lyricist and vocalist of "The Middle"
Solo exhibition: 2011 - "EvsuVdo". Exhibition hall of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University

A cursory glance at EvsuVdo's works may confirm the spectator in the commonly accepted view of today's twenty-year olds as being indifferent to the typical social irritants. None of the morbid phenomena such as violence, death, abnormalities, sexual deviations seem to be of any interest to them.

On the contrary, as if in defiance, it is the moment of harmony that is in the focus of their object lens - unmistakably, the world's harmony where at long last a place has been found for a human being.

The very moment of shooting does not tend to single out on object in space, contrarywise, it gets the latter fixed in the surrounding reality by making it part and parcel of any kind of landscape or entourage, however fantastic. Surprisingly, the stranger the latter, the more precious the result gained, the lighter the link between the world and a human.

EvsuVdo's inclination for a specifically bloodless type of experiment lends their works a demiurgic quality. They do not test the world for solidity, but reveal and embody its hidden harmonious potencies. In this respect noteworthy is the creative duet's assumed name, a combination of the first letters of their surnames, reflecting their aspiration for synthesis, integrity and confluence.

Suggestive also is the fact that while creating harmoniously built worlds, the camera simultaneously imprints their ephemera. Consequently, the images created by EvsuVdo are marked by a certain vulnerability, their crystal fragility so remindful of the flimsiness of the obtained link with the world, implicitly indicative of its existential character.

And yet, finally, the moment of harmony, captured in the innumerable metamorphoses, becomes substantially and tangibly confirmed. After all, by darning holes in space EvsuVdo are little by mending the world.

Marina Alekseeva