DMITRII ZOLOTAREV
VISUAL ARTIST & FILM DIRECTOR
Meta Damage
This is my visual language — or graphic style, if we’re being generous. Glitch, datamosh, artifacts, distortions, compression, fragmentation — this is how I see reality: torn, trembling, misrendered. In these breakdowns, I see the uniqueness of subjective perception.
Inner Space
Inner space is my understanding of beauty. What happens inside a person: silence, shame, love, fear, a sudden irrational thought. I work with what is hard to put into words but can be conveyed through images.
Subjective perception is a paradoxical thing. It seems to make us unique, yet we all make the same cognitive errors. This creates a strange kind of unity: the inner world of each person is unrepeatable, and at the same time, oddly familiar.
Sometimes my works may appear ironic or even absurd. But irony is just a reaction to cognitive dissonance,
to the illogic of the world, to the absurdity we encounter every day. It’s a form of protection, a form of observation, and part of how subjective perception expresses itself.
In any case, it keeps me busy.