ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The art photography «Emancipation of Light» was created by Ukrainian photographer Serhii Kovbasyuk in 2023.
This photography conveys the idea of liberating one’s inner light from limitations, freeing it from external boundaries, giving it space and ease, and demonstrating its beauty. The transparent fabric creates a mist-like effect, obscuring details but leaving the essentials..
The photographs can be seen as an allegory for the emancipation of individuals from social, cultural, religious, and other limitations that hinder personal development and self-expression. The «Emancipation of Light» can be understood as liberation from all the factors that prevent us from being bright, light, and transparent.
The photo depict not only the beauty of body forms but also the fluidity of movements, creating a feeling of lightness. The body blends with the movement of the fabric, giving the photograph dynamics and changing the sense of space. The form becomes a part of a greater whole, allowing it to be seen not only as physical but also as spiritual, as an element of light. The body becomes not just an object but a part of the artwork itself.
The transparent fabric covering the body and face focuses attention on lines, texture, and movement instead of the individual. It symbolizes anonymity and universality, allowing the viewer to identify with the model and feel a connection to the body regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, or any other attributes that may create barriers in perception. It prompts reflection on abstraction and minimalism, on how to separate oneself from external characteristics and focus on internal emotions, feelings, and experiences.


AUTHOR
Kovbasyuk Serhiy - photographer, Kyiv (Ukraine)
Genre: portrait, art photography, art nude.
Born on May 21, 1985 in the city of Kyiv.
Member of UAPF — Association of Professional Photographers of Ukraine.
Ukrainian photographer Serhii Kovbasyuk was born in Kyiv in 1985.
For further development, Serhii chose photography, in which he still expresses himself.
Participant of various exhibitions (both in Ukraine and in other countries), photographer - guest of television projects (Top model of Ukrainian season 4.5, model ХЛ), has publications in glossy magazines L'Officiel, Vogue and others.
He specializes in the genre of portrait and art photography. In his works, the author of visual art, Serhii Kovbasyuk, tries to introduce the viewer to the world of revelations.
The artist's works are about the simple and the complex; about superficial and deep; about the edges and subtle limits of our nature and worldview; about the flight of the soul
which is sometimes difficult to convey in words and impossible to forget the feeling itself.
Photo project "Pure Art" Shooting date: September 29, 2020.
Presented in December 2021 at the photo exhibition "From Ukraine with Love" in Kyiv in "Art underground pass Khreschatyk street"
The process during which you completely surrender to your feelings, subconsciousness,
listening to your inner voice and thoughts as the energy flows through you is reflected in the form of arbitrary creation. Art is in everything that is inspired and lived.
Photobook "Personal Meditation"
Abstract expression of form, relations with the city and man, nakedness of the soul and plasticity of perception-
all this is a process of personal meditation, which gives an opportunity to look beyond the material and dive into the depths of the truth, when what is seen becomes a revelation and takes the form of visual art.

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