Roman Chikerinets
Roman Chikerinets is an artist/architectural designer, currently living and working in Iowa. He received his Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a BA in Fine Arts from Hunter CUNY. Prior to taking a teaching job at ISU’s College of Design, Roman practiced architecture in high end residential design in NYC.
With these series of works I like to take a low-tech approach to bio-art. Where the digital meets raw fruit; Utilizing architectural thinking and processes I seek to explore and search the spaces of the vegetables. By skinning, cutting sections through, re-mapping, and stitching together bio matters, one constructs an alternative reality that comments on technological advances and genetic modification of crop. The revealed loss of reference, familiarity and at times scale reveal new or unseen landscapes.
Do these new tissues vie for something bigger? Has the time come for a sentient vegetable? The new ethics and surfacing legal representations of the non-human entity are promising and exciting. The cultural participation of the bio matter thus occupies a new topological landscape; An evermore expressive open system riding on the co-evolutionary wave of technological advances and cultural artifact production. A guilty but seductive heresy is committed with each experiment of excess of nutrition thus commenting on the abundance and consumerism.
Do these new tissues vie for something bigger? Has the time come for a sentient vegetable? The new ethics and surfacing legal representations of the non-human entity are promising and exciting. The cultural participation of the bio matter thus occupies a new topological landscape; An evermore expressive open system riding on the co-evolutionary wave of technological advances and cultural artifact production. A guilty but seductive heresy is committed with each experiment of excess of nutrition thus commenting on the abundance and consumerism.
