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.

I. Vision

I see.
My works reveal a different side of existence.I lower the light level so that shadows can unfold with full force.I look deep inside — at what is hidden, what should not be shown. I do not seek frames or hunt for them.This is the reality in which I exist.

II. Shadow

The unattractive is the most honest. 
The imprints of our shadows freeze on us before disappearing back into the depths. Each flash is a way to hold on to what is slipping away. Knowledge, inner vision, gliding in the shadows.

III. Recognition

I bring to the surface.

The parts you hide: hunger, greed, lust, humiliation, weakness, anger, lust for power.Everyone has their own set.I give them freedom. I acknowledge their presence. I allow them to manifest, I encourage them.Only by recognizing your shadows as equal can you become whole.Only by encountering your shadows can you find light.