Ed Potapenkov

to be updI am an optimist through life. I even make destruction positive. However, I do not accept glamour and crazy fun in my work. And I would not want to be considered an impressionist, as is sometimes written about me. In general, I do not belong to any direction. For me, the main thing is the g...

to be updI am an optimist through life. I even make destruction positive. However, I do not accept glamour and crazy fun in my work. And I would not want to be considered an impressionist, as is sometimes written about me. In general, I do not belong to any direction. For me, the main thing is the goal and the idea, not the means of their expression.

With the help of art I try to change myself. In my work I try to raise current issues related to globalization, ecology, the impact of human personality and society, self-identification.

Each work brings its own reality, a separate story. By involving the viewer into a visual dialogue, I urge them to decide whether this world is real or fake.

I always want to go a new way. Sometimes it seems the artist has found his niche: composition, colour, theme or element - and he puts potboiler on conveyer. This is not for me. The artist must be interesting, he must change, regardless of the commercial component. It is interesting to work in projects, to go, to move. This is what's close to me, because the second point in my goals is to travel.ated