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Although Kiev-based photographer Valentine Bo<\/a> had always drawn, the 34-year-old didn\u2019t start to take pictures until his second year at Lviv Polytechnic National University, where he was studying architecture. A classmate\u2019s passion for the technical aspects of photography sparked Bo\u2019s interest, inspiring him to go out and buy a camera of his own. Before long, he was taking photos of his everyday surroundings and uploading them to a website, which he says he\u2019s thankful no longer exists.<\/p>\n

After earning a spot on the prestigious Foam Talent exhibition this year \u2013 the show will travel to Frankfurt<\/a> in September after runs in London, New York and Amsterdam \u2013 Bo\u2019s work has been surfacing on the internet once more. Images from his ongoing sci-fi-style photographic series, Your Next Step Would Be To Do The Transmission<\/em>, featuring plaster casts of human faces swimming in a formaldehyde-like substance, or propped on a metallic cloche under operating theatre lights, have been widely shared online. These hyper-realistic masks suggest the unnerving clinicality of an alternative past or a near future, as well as the cool detachment of scientific observation.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":79068,"id":79068,"title":"24 v","filename":"24-v.jpg","filesize":552142,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/24-v\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"24-v","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79052,"date":"2019-08-21 14:23:58","modified":"2019-08-21 14:23:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/24-v.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}},{"ID":79069,"id":79069,"title":"28v","filename":"28v.jpg","filesize":274894,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/28v\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"28v","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79052,"date":"2019-08-21 14:24:08","modified":"2019-08-21 14:24:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28v.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

The series offers a vital example of Bo\u2019s approach to image-making. In the past, he \u201cenjoyed filming [his] personal life \u2013 relation- ships, breaks-ups, entertainment\u201d \u2013 and performed like \u201ca cameraman in the documentary of his own life.\u201d Following a trip to visit a friend at the Kulturama school in Stockholm, however, his outlook altered, and he abandoned the intimate style he had previously practiced. In contrast, the images in Your Next Step…<\/em> are conceptually driven, challenging, thought-provoking, even aloof. \u201cNow, I\u2019m more interested in the phenomena that arise in modern society and their psychological components,\u201d explains the Ukrainian photographer. \u201cI address a specific topic, a story, and then create my own script, working with associations, allegories, and building a set of symbols. I find it captivating when the audience\u2019s perception is based on internal disputes and the destruction of rational foundations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bo says that these phenomena include \u201chuman conformity, manipulation, pretence and sincerity,\u201d which he dissects in Your Next Step…<\/em> through digitally-landscaped photographs depicting imagined experiments. The series came about when he considered how these concepts are at the core of ideological movements, including religions and cults, in particular Rae\u0308lism, a religion founded in 1974 by French former automobile journalist Claude Vorilhon, whose proponents believe that Earth and its inhabitants were created and that humans can achieve eternal life by cloning themselves. \u201cI\u2019m taken by the ability of people faced with estrangement in modern society to find some kind of transcendence in such cults.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":79067,"id":79067,"title":"19v","filename":"19v.jpg","filesize":326790,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/19v\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"19v","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79052,"date":"2019-08-21 14:23:46","modified":"2019-08-21 14:23:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19v.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}},{"ID":79064,"id":79064,"title":"3","filename":"3.jpg","filesize":168018,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/3-17\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"3-17","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79052,"date":"2019-08-21 14:23:21","modified":"2019-08-21 14:23:21","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Other than the stoic masks, the series also includes a number of images of humanoid shapes and swine-like forms stewing in acidic juices. With their pillowy and wrinkled limbs squished into vitrines, the creatures are eerie and life-like, causing the viewer to question their relationship with fantasy and reality. Bo deliberately challenges the perception of photography as a concrete indicator of truth, instead high- lighting how easily we can be taken in and manipulated by the image.<\/p>\n

In itself, the series \u2013 which Bo intends to turn into a book in the near future \u2013 employs digital image manipulation and photogrammetry (the ability to make measurements based on photos). The plaster masks were created on image analysing software and designed into 3D models that were later printed on a colour gypsum 3D printer. In this sense, the objects are real, but also not \u2013 they disrupt a fixed understanding of the world.<\/p>\n

For Bo, photography is a matter of storytelling, of creating a deeper psychological visual story. When, in 2017, the opportunity arose to photograph one of his idols, David Lynch, for example, the photographer says that he \u201cwasn\u2019t going to settle for a mere mugshot \u2013 I needed to create a unique context (significant, primarily, for me).\u201d The final portrait<\/a>, David Lynch, the Vessel & the Baby<\/em>, depicts an inquisitive looking Lynch peering up at a bulbous laboratory flask containing a baby figurine squeezed inside. According to Bo, Lynch\u2019s \u201cmystical fluctuating world filled with questions whose answers are hidden in our subconscious and others to which you wouldn\u2019t want to find the answers to\u201d was a significant influence on his own work. It\u2019s no wonder then that when asked to describe his practice in three words he opts for \u201csymbol, metaphor, irrationality.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":79070,"id":79070,"title":"32b","filename":"32b.jpg","filesize":389005,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/32b\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"32b","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79052,"date":"2019-08-21 14:24:14","modified":"2019-08-21 14:24:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/32b.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}},{"ID":79065,"id":79065,"title":"5v","filename":"5v.jpg","filesize":328847,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/5v\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"5v","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79052,"date":"2019-08-21 14:23:25","modified":"2019-08-21 14:23:25","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5v.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

This article originally appeared in SLEEK 62,\u00a0out now<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Foam Talent 2019<\/a> opens at The Cube, Eschborn\/Frankfurt, the headquarters of Deutsche B\u00f6rse on 6 September to 1 November 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

All photos courtesy of Valentine Bo<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\nThe Ukrainian photographer constructing grotesque sci-fi scenes to investigate modern life The Ukrainian photographer constructing grotesque sci-fi scenes to investigate modern life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ukrainian photographer constructing grotesque sci-fi scenes to investigate modern life The Ukrainian photographer constructing grotesque sci-fi scenes to investigate modern life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/valentine-bo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-21T14:58:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-21T15:31:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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