This Russian photographer, part of a new wave, is currently exhibiting in Galeria Senda in Barcelona the exhibition closes on the 31st July 2011. The artist’s statement was translated from the Russian into Spanish and then into English… “Oleg Dou’s work finds its roots in our occidental culture as it stigmatises the tradition of portrait with a contemporary spirit, the one of our new human condition. Oleg Dou captures faces and orchestrate their mutation. Characters appear silently, walled in their own universe. And yet, unique specimen of their species, these beings look like sending out a distress call, putting us face to face with the irreversible testimony of a reality which drifted away from us.” Lost in Translation?
