About / Manifest

Evgeniy (Whoii) is a visual artist and creative strategist based in Chelyabinsk, Russia. With a background in management and business, he combines artistic practice with conceptual thinking and analytical skills. His work moves across photography, art objects, and conceptual projects, forming a dialogue between aesthetics and strategy.

He focuses on the human condition, exploring inner worlds, identity, and the impact of society on personal authenticity. His practice integrates artistic exploration with business awareness, positioning him at the intersection of art, culture, and strategy.

Artist Statement   

My artistic practice examines how environments—urban, industrial, and natural—shape human identity and behavior. 

Using a noir-inspired aesthetic and staged photography, I create visual narratives that reveal hidden layers of vulnerability and authenticity beneath social masks and constructed realities.  

Manifest  

In my work, I explore the inner states of the human condition and how they manifest in the external world. A noir-inspired aesthetic emphasizes what is hidden, suppressed, or concealed within us.

I am drawn to the traces we leave behind — conscious or accidental imprints of our presence, desires, and fantasies projected onto the surrounding environment.

Through staged photography, I examine human identity as part of an ongoing dialogue with its environment: fragile, masked by social roles, yet simultaneously shaping the very spaces it inhabits. The environment becomes both stage and counterpart, where acceptance and tension, vulnerability and resistance coexist.

I am particularly interested in cycles of mutual influence: shaped by our surroundings, we exhale them back, infused with our own values and perceptions.

My practice seeks to capture this fragile balance between self, society, and environment, opening a dialogue on desire, identity, and authenticity in contemporary life.