bio - definitively unfinished
Vlad Lunin is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist working with still and moving imagery. Born in former Soviet Union, in a town in western Ukraine called Chervonograd. As a teenager he immigrated to Canada where he studied visual art and international relations focusing on United States of America. Through observation and constant documentation his ideas are drawn from an interest in built environments and ideas of change and progress. He views the purpose of creating work not for its intended completion but rather for the enjoyment of the actual process of work being done. Photographing using any camera available, Canon 5D MKIII DSLR, different iPhones and GoPro all processed by computer software to present a new form of image. The intention is to focus on understanding how the process and the finished work correlate. His work is a process of combining painting and photographing in a way that the images are created, not by capturing or digital manipulations, but rather where photographs themselves are used like brushes and paint on a canvas of a new image. His life as an immigrant construction worker, created a perspective on the world as one of constant change and turbulence in order to achieve something greater, something that was not possible before. Process and working and reworking or fixing is the motion of life, where destination is secondary to the momentary building experience of a new world.