Victor Ponomarenko

Born in 1987, Victor consecutively graduated from the Krasnodar Art College and the School of Graphic Arts of the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in St. Petersburg where he majored in book illustration. The artist currently lives and works between Anapa and Moscow.

In his creative practice, Victor Ponomarenko explores the connection between substance and space, the inherent nature of things, and the frailty of existence. Addressing the environmental issues and overconsumption, the artist uses disposable items as an allegory for the evanescence of life and futility of pleasures, alluding to the Baroque painting genre of vanitas. Attentiveness to detail and composition, as well as refined play of light and shadow in the vein of the 17th-century Dutch painting transport the ‘throwaway’ objects into a new temporal dimension.