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Hello!
We, Carolina Dutca and Valentin Sidorenko, want to submit our collective photography project. The title, and introduction to the body of work No Man’s Wedding, 13 photographies and 1 fairytale.
No Man’s Wedding is a twisted wonderland filled with symbols, rituals and games, which from time immemorial imitated life and death.
The avenue we’ve chosen is that of a fairy tale. What is a fairy tale? It’s a repository of archetypes and mythological narratives. These narratives offer codes that aid in deciphering the existential motives of the war.
In this story, the man goes to war like fiancé goes to wedding. He goes down to the afterlife trying to cheat death, hides out away from it and laughs. He collects shells (an ancient symbol of baptism). But is the fiancé worth of holy communion or his baptismal font is filled with soil?
Carolina Dutca and Valentin Sidorenko are two artists. They work with photography, documentary films and text.
Since 2019 the artist duo Carolina Dutca (*1995, Bender, MD) and Valentin Sidorenko (*1995,Gornyak, RUS) live and work in Moldova. Dutca studied art and documentary photography at the Fotografika Academy (St. Petersburg). Sidorenko studied animation in Russian State University of Cinematography (Moscow) and graduated from the Fotografika Academy (St. Petersburg).
Carolina likes to experiment and to walk on the edge of the genre. The beauty of creative process is the main thing in her works. Valentin adores digging through the discovered archives and plays the detective. He scans for interesting people in the streets and writes his dreams down. In their works they create a sacral world. They observe the disruptions in the usual order of events where the distinctions between good and evil, life and death, are sometimes blurred. In this torn world, they try to make connections through art.
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