Synchrodogs

SYNCHRODOGS (formed in 2008) is an artist group of the two Ukrainian photographers Tania Shcheglova (born 1989 in Ivano-Frankovsk) and Roman Noven (born 1984 in Lutsk). They were winners of Harpers Bazaar’s art photography award for Ukraine (2011), the first prize in the Art Rebels x Canon photo contest, Denmark, and the FOAM Construct competition Netherlands (both 2012). They have extensively exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide.

Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven travel around Ukraine, realizing different photographic series that deal with the presence of the human body within undisturbed nature. In their work they represent framed landscapes as abstracted and sublimated places disrupted by the introduction of a self-portrait into the image. These self-portraits are often reduced to a body with a continually transforming skin, strangely absorbed but alienated from its natural background.

For the exhibition of the nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, Synchrodogs have travelled to Iceland, continuing their practice of playful discovering, framing, disrupting and capturing sublime natural environments in their staged photographs.