September 4 to 8, Dymchuk Gallery presented the works of the artistic duo SYNCHRODOGS as part of the Ukrainian Pavilion VOLTA New York 2024 in partnership with Razom.
Led by Artistic Director Lee Cavaliere, for his inaugural edition in the city, the 16th edition of VOLTA New York brought a wave of excitement and success, highlighting both commercial and cultural impact. The fair showcased 52 galleries from 18 countries, continuing VOLTA’s mission since 2008 of championing emerging artists and galleries in key art market hubs. This year, VOLTA also highlighted the importance of cultural diplomacy through its Ukrainian Pavilion, demonstrating how art can transcend boundaries even in times of the war.
The Ukrainian Pavilion was one of the powerful highlights of VOLTA New York 2024, drawing attention from key art publications such as The Art Newspaper, Elephant Magazine, and Hyperallergic. The Dymchuk Gallery exhibition within the pavilion featured selected works by SYNCHRODOGS from the Reverie Sleep, Supernatural and Slightly Altered series.
about artists:
SYNCHRODOGS is a duo of fine artists from Ukraine, Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova, collaborating since 2008. Together they pursue questions of environmental mindfulness and education via art, investigating the complex relationship of human and nature and the new ways the earth begins to look as a result of their fragile codependence, highlighting the juxtaposition of natural and artificial, real and surreal via multidisciplinary artistic approach.
SYNCHRODOGS works explore the everlasting tension between man and nature, with images of raw, animalistic beauty, which also manage to come across as awkwardly sophisticated. Discovering how far people managed to intrude into the territories that were meant to be wild, the duo works together in an intimate synchronized choreography, sharing the same aesthetic and ideas acquired through a self-made meditation technique that takes place on the verge between wakefulness and sleep. Observing the new ways the earth begins to look as a result of human interventions into the environmental processes, their work balances between the real and imagined, drawing the viewer into an unconscious, wild, and dream-like world, aiming to inspire people to live a decent life full of respect and responsibility for planet earth.
Their works have been exhibited in Dallas Contemporary Museum, PinchukArtCenter, Palais de Tokyo, Benaki Museum, The Annenberg Space for Photography, and ArtPrize Hub, they took part in Sotheby’s Charity Art Auction in 2021 and Visions of The Future Exposition by Saatchi Art in 2022. They also participated in Afaa Art Residency together with artists like Mason Saltrelli, Anthony Miler, Liam Allen, and Mary Heilmann, and became one of the main winners of the Lensculture Award in 2022.