honorable mention
Tetiana Shcheglova Roman Noven ukraine
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Slightly Altered
Slightly Altered
Working on ‘Slightly Altered’ project artistic duo Synchrodogs went into a one-month trip across Carpathian Mountains to discover how far people managed to intrude into the territories that were meant to be wild.
People have always been shaping natural forces around them. But is there a limit of resources the Earth would allow us to use? "Slightly Altered" is a reflection on how much we are intertwined with nature - changing the environment, we change ourselves. The project is about interdependency of humans and nature and the new ways the Earth begins to look as a result of our interventions into the environmental processes.
Over the month of travelling artistic duo had to face a lot of controversial situations: getting to know how thousands of trees are being lumbered by locals weekly, all illegally, for the sake of getting paid, seeing taxidermied animals in every mountain restaurant, hotel or house and never spotting at least one live animal in the forest, stomping out a fire on the mountain valley after some people irresponsibly left a campfire to stop burning by itself.
Witnessing these and other intrusions into nature, Synchrodogs have started reflecting upon how much we, like all life, both alter our environment and are altered by it.
An abstract reflection on human exploitation of nature, the project is also a visual message about the importance of education - not the one about numerical or verbal literacy but the one that teaches us to appreciate nature and to live our lives with awareness, responsibility, and care.
Tania graduated from Information technology department of Ivano-Frankivsk national technical university of oil and gas in 2011.
In 2023 she was selected for AFAA residency and attended Skowhegan art residency in 2024.
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entry description
Slightly Altered
Working on ‘Slightly Altered’ project artistic duo Synchrodogs went into a one-month trip across Carpathian Mountains to discover how far people managed to intrude into the territories that were meant to be wild.
People have always been shaping natural forces around them. But is there a limit of resources the Earth would allow us to use? "Slightly Altered" is a reflection on how much we are intertwined with nature - changing the environment, we change ourselves. The project is about interdependency of humans and nature and the new ways the Earth begins to look as a result of our interventions into the environmental processes.
Over the month of travelling artistic duo had to face a lot of controversial situations: getting to know how thousands of trees are being lumbered by locals weekly, all illegally, for the sake of getting paid, seeing taxidermied animals in every mountain restaurant, hotel or house and never spotting at least one live animal in the forest, stomping out a fire on the mountain valley after some people irresponsibly left a campfire to stop burning by itself.
Witnessing these and other intrusions into nature, Synchrodogs have started reflecting upon how much we, like all life, both alter our environment and are altered by it.
An abstract reflection on human exploitation of nature, the project is also a visual message about the importance of education - not the one about numerical or verbal literacy but the one that teaches us to appreciate nature and to live our lives with awareness, responsibility, and care.
about the photographer
Tania Shcheglova is an artist from Ukraine working as part of Synchrodogs art duo since 2008. In 2023 she started conducting a solo art project in fine art photography and installation art, building a global photographic archive of creative minds and pioneering the concept of Inner World Portraiture.Tania graduated from Information technology department of Ivano-Frankivsk national technical university of oil and gas in 2011.
In 2023 she was selected for AFAA residency and attended Skowhegan art residency in 2024.
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