Heavy Clouds is an intimate leap into the world of Vic Bakin’s photography. Born in Turkmenistan, the Kyiv based artist drafts inmost fragile moments of young Ukrainian men in his work. On 60 pages and compiled with lyrical excerpts, the artist goes back in time, dives into his archives and refines the practices, productions and concepts of his existing works. While reprinting old images, he instinctively applies acrylic paint on the images, poetically enhancing and frangibly embellishing the old, adding his very own new touch to it.
In this book, the artist tries to visualize his emotional experience of absence, depicting stains in his memories of those pictures as the acrylic paint and as an eternal and enduring method to create an everlasting manifest of his collected works throughout the years. Added poems and words by Serhii Rafalsky draw references and subtle sidetones to his creative practice and visual inspirations.
Vic Bakin is a self-educated Ukrainian photographer born in Turkmenistan. He lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. His photographic practice mainly revolves around portraying the contemporary Ukrainian youth.
The picture book Heavy Clouds is a collaborative effort between Vic Bakin and RAM for Standard Deviation, the Ukrainian multidisciplinary label and offspring of non binary safe space ∄.
60-pages issue, printed on high-quality newspaper.
Photography: Vic Bakin
Words: Serhii Rafalsky
Production: Anastasiia Syradoieva
Typography: Weiss Antiqua by Sascha Bente
Art Direction and Design: RAM
Publishing: Standard Deviation
Kyiv, 2021
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