MADS MIL@NO PHOTO AWARD CATA DEF

Alex Kosyak
“It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.” (Charles Baudelaire)
Alex Kosyak is a Ukrainian photographer who was born in 1984 in Romny. Always passionate about art, he
is attracted in particular by the surrealist movement, especially by the works of Salvador Dalì. Only later he
approached photography, certainly influenced by the typical characteristics of Surrealism. His photos are often
set in city centers, but it would be an understatement to define Alex as a street photographer. His photography
does not want to be a document of everyday life on the streets, but a continuous research on the dimension that
the body assumes in relation to architecture. One thing that photography fails to do, in fact, is to communicate
the real dimensions of things. In each image of the triptych presented here, we can see how the presence of the
body acts as a useful element for understanding the proportions. The architecture of his photographs engulfs
all the space and the bodily element remains at the mercy of it without awareness. Alex’s language is mainly
characterized by highly contrasted blacks and whites, which convey a feeling of restlessness despite the regularity
of the lines and respect for the composition. Buildings that now graze the sky, ever taller buildings, magnificent
ever more imposing architectures envelop our daily life. The sensation that exhales from these images increases
a doubt of malaise. All these buildings do not allow the vision of a real horizon, of space and very often also of
the sun. Masses of people move from one city to another every day. They live and work in large urban centers.
The relationship created over the years between man and the urban landscape is constantly expanding. Will we
be able to survive far from our origins?
Art Curator Francesca Brunello