Viktoria Pidust
Viktoria Pidust is a Ukrainian artist and photographer, born in Nikopol and based in Berlin since 2015. In her practice, she explores the expanded field of photography, combining traditional and digital techniques as well as algorithmic processes of artificial intelligence. Her work raises questions of perception, materiality, and the transformation of reality.
Pidust graduated from the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin in 2021, where she was awarded a DAAD scholarship. In 2020, she became a recipient of the Mart Stam Prize. Her works have been exhibited internationally in Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Brussels, Paris, Munich, Kyiv, Bonn, and London.
Retroville
2022
UV print on Aludibond
Courtesy of the artist
In Victoria Pidust’s work Retroville, generated image worlds overlap with analog photography. For this purpose, she uses photogrammetry software and her own camera shots. During the war, in April 2022 in Kyiv, she scanned a shattered screen of a shopping mall destroyed by war damage to render “natural-looking” landscape images. With the associative mixture of hybrid visual material, she demonstrates the readiness of our perception to be manipulated.