Chrystal Cherniwchan and Dimitri Daniloff
Chrystal Cherniwchan is a Canadian artist living and working in the UK. She is a graduate from the MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking programme at the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) and has a BFA in Photography from the Alberta University of the Arts, Canada. She is interested in experimenting with the elastic nature of time-based mediums such as photography, sound, book works, and text, attempting to create hybrid forms. In all of her projects there is a comment on the fissure within each field, in relation to subject, idea, and/or concept, and gender. Perceptions around fact and fiction, the materiality in print and photography in connection to film and digital captures, and female agency through image production.
As a son of a sculptor, Dimitri Daniloff (1970) has developed a body awareness from an early age. He has since cultivated a connection to texture and materiality. Fascinated by the numerous possibilities that technique has to offer, he first experimented with 4×5 view cameras and then turned to the practice of digital art. A shift, since he then started to transform his images. He now produces new scenes of everyday life by assembling raw elements with real subjects – always finding the right balance between authenticity and fiction. His campaign for PlayStation is a great example of this tension: deconstructed bodies knocking together and questioning our boundaries.