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My interest in fortune telling was started from thoughts about predestination of the life. I admitted it and was afraid of it at the same time. It seemed that a person has a choice. I decided to find out my fate through palmistry to overcome this fear. Having learned my past, present and possible future, I continued to believe in the influence of a person on his life, in the ability to choose.
I looked at the frozen lines on my hands. Lines - the time stopped at the moment of our birth. I wanted to talk to someone about this, and I began a dialogue with people who can no longer change their lives.
In the project, I put archival prints of famous people of XIX-XX centuries together, made by palmists: M. Raschig and L. Hamon. I began to ask myself: musicians, physicists, artists, actors, politicians - each took a decisive step in their path, but what if it were different?
About author:
Valentin Sidorenko was born in 1995 in a small town Gornyak, which is situated in Altai Krai on the border of Russia and Kazakhstan. He graduated from the VGIK — Russian State University of Cinematography with major in Animation and Multimedia, also he graduated from Fotografika — Academy of Documentary and Art Photography. Except photography and animation, Sidorenko works with documentary films using an observation method.
Sidorenko basically approaches the theme of time. He is especially inspired by the past: that located at a depth, but that turns out to be multifaceted and ambiguous in the light. For him, it's a discovery every time. Sidorenko never knows the subject he will run into: Who is in this photo? Whose notebook is this? And what does all this mean? Working with the chronicle, documents or family photos, Sidorenko removes his author's responsibility, but he gives all that material a form. Also, in collaboration with Carolina Dutca, he plays with time. They are reminiscing about the fictional stories, growing up, and being naughty.
I looked at the frozen lines on my hands. Lines - the time stopped at the moment of our birth. I wanted to talk to someone about this, and I began a dialogue with people who can no longer change their lives.
In the project, I put archival prints of famous people of XIX-XX centuries together, made by palmists: M. Raschig and L. Hamon. I began to ask myself: musicians, physicists, artists, actors, politicians - each took a decisive step in their path, but what if it were different?
About author:
Valentin Sidorenko was born in 1995 in a small town Gornyak, which is situated in Altai Krai on the border of Russia and Kazakhstan. He graduated from the VGIK — Russian State University of Cinematography with major in Animation and Multimedia, also he graduated from Fotografika — Academy of Documentary and Art Photography. Except photography and animation, Sidorenko works with documentary films using an observation method.
Sidorenko basically approaches the theme of time. He is especially inspired by the past: that located at a depth, but that turns out to be multifaceted and ambiguous in the light. For him, it's a discovery every time. Sidorenko never knows the subject he will run into: Who is in this photo? Whose notebook is this? And what does all this mean? Working with the chronicle, documents or family photos, Sidorenko removes his author's responsibility, but he gives all that material a form. Also, in collaboration with Carolina Dutca, he plays with time. They are reminiscing about the fictional stories, growing up, and being naughty.