Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW loooong struggle of persuasion followed together with a lot of stresses and breakdowns, until somehow we all agreed that we will sell our big apartment in Kyiv to cover the university fees, and so, i was gone. In university, i realised that photography is not enough for me, and so i began to explore other media, like video, performance, audio. It opened my eyes to possibilities and creativity that i was so hungry for. I wasnt planning to settle down, all i wanted was to try more things with myself and technologies and materials and to experiment. This is when i started to use my body as a tool, to use self portraits to tell stories, to be raw and honest with myself and the viewer. I’ve learned to become an artistic voyeurist and exhibitionist. I was mesmerized by francesca woodman’s self portraits and duane michael’s way of telling melancholic stories, oh and tracey emin’s raw confessional artworks. I remember my final project from the first year at uni (foundation year), was shown on two tv screens: on one was my face shouting into the camera different verbs (run, cry, fall, hit the wall, jump, smile, punch, etc), on another - i was in a room trying to follow all these actions from the first screen. It was a dynamic and chaotic piece, that i still think was so clever and well done, that i might actually reproduce it in a new v(er)ision. In england, I was so happy to be out of