About

Evgeniy (Whoii) is a visual artist working at the intersection of photography, objects, and ideas. His practice explores the human condition — both internal and external — the interaction between the body and the environment, between structure and feeling.

Through photography and matter, he addresses themes of presence and disappearance, control and vulnerability, the invisible connections between humans and the space that shapes them.

WHOII creates not images, but traces of tension, left behind by the moment when the internal becomes visible.

Artist Statement   

Exploring the boundaries of perception

Humans are not the center of the world, nor are they its consequence. They are a dynamic system of connections through which reality cognizes its own forms.

My research focuses on how consciousness becomes the structure of the external world, and the world becomes a feedback mechanism that shapes consciousness.

The key element in this process is the body—as the vessel of perception and, at the same time, part of the environment through which reality becomes tangible. The body is not just a form of existence, but an interface between the internal and the external, a place where they exchange.

The aim of the research is to identify the mechanisms of being through which the world becomes aware of itself in humans and to restore the original connection where humans and the environment cease to be opposites.

Visually, this idea is realized through work with corporeality, spatial reflections, and phenomena of presence. I am interested in the moment when an image ceases to be a representation and becomes a carrier of perception—a structure through which the world itself sees.

I view art not as an act of self-expression, but as a tool for modeling consciousness. By creating maps of the interaction between perception, the body, and the environment, I strive for a state where art becomes a natural continuation of being—a way of existing in the field of the world, rather than talking about it.

Manifest  

“Enough light for the shadows to speak”

I. Vision

I see.
My works reveal another side of being.
I lower the light to its minimum,
so the shadows can unfold in their full strength.
I look inward — into what is hidden,
into what should not be shown.
The frames are not created — they emerge.
I do not hunt for them.
This is not pursuit — it is presence.
It is simply my reality.

II. Shadow

The unbeautiful — is honest.
The imprints of our shadows solidify upon us
before they sink back into the depth.
It is a way to hold what slips away,
to make a fading breath sound once more.
I glide along the shadows.
Each flash is inner sight, knowledge —
a moment when the world uncovers itself.
In darkness, form does not vanish —
truth is born within it.

III. Recognition

I bring your shadow to the surface —
the part you hide: hungry, greedy, lustful, humiliated, weak, angry.
Each has their own.
I give it voice. I affirm its presence.
I let it appear. I give it breath.
Only by acknowledging it as equal can one become whole.
Only through meeting one’s shadow — light is found.