Slightly Altered

Beginning their collaboration in 2008, the Ukrainian artist duo Synchrodogs initially approached photography with a diaristic lens recording everyday moments of their lives. Eventually, they developed the stylized look for which they are now known, playing with ideas of futurism, psychedelia, environmental phenomena, and the body’s intrinsic relationship to landscape. Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova, the artists behind Synchrodogs, chose this moniker as it aptly encapsulates their mutual taste and creative vision. 

Part of the artists’ creative process is a nighttime meditation technique, where they harness the exact moment before deep sleep to experience what is described as waking dreams or hypnagogic hallucinations. These dream states are a source of inspiration, propelling them to create scenes of pink dust explosions amidst flora, glass ceramics in rock crevices, and colourful tape adorned to a tree. This imaginative approach to image-making encourages a playful connection to and sense of stewardship with the surrounding environment. Having coined the term “Environmental Surrealism,” the artists visually articulate the irreversible impact corporations continue to have on this planet. Synchrodogs highlight the bizarre crisis we, collectively, are experiencing while reminding us of our shared responsibility to care for the land.

Presented in partnership with Booooooom and the Canada Line Public Art Project – InTransit BC.