Vasyl Chornyy

A World Built Without Algorithms

My practice begins with photography and evolves into a realm beyond documentation. I work exclusively with my own images, transforming them through meticulous digital layering to challenge the perception of reality.

I am fundamentally committed to full authorship, which is why I deliberately avoid AI. Every texture, mark, and compositional shift is a conscious artistic decision.

My work explores the boundaries between the visible and the imagined, between architectural form and the persistence of memory. Through spatial tension and inversion, I create images that invite a second look—evoking a new emotional response upon each viewing.

A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, I have spent decades working with space and proportion. This background has refined my artistic eye, instilling a rigorous sense of geometry and the emotional weight of structural decisions. This foundation allows me to deconstruct and rebuild the world as I see it.

From Lviv, Ukraine. Currently living and working between Lviv and Warsaw.

Lviv National Academy of Art 1999-2005